It is planned to settle Ukrainian children in Poland in prisons and shelters for minors

The Polish Commissioner for Human Rights, Marcin Winczek, said that first, pupils from Ukrainian orphanages and children who will arrive in Poland without parents will be placed in correctional facilities and shelters. To do this, it is necessary to dismantle the bars, barbed wire, and provide them with appropriate professional care.

In colonies and shelters for minors, isolation conditions are usually created: bars are installed on the windows and doors are reinforced, and the territory is fenced off, writes prawo.pl.

And although, in accordance with the recommendations of the Ministry of Justice, the mobility of Ukrainian citizens who will be in such institutions will not be limited, and the institutions will no longer perform their isolation functions, there is still a risk that staying in such an environment will negatively affect people, survivors of the hardships of the war.

In addition, the Commissioner for Human Rights notes that among the refugees there may be people with disabilities, whose condition requires appropriate adaptation of the environment.

The Human Rights Ombudsman points out that many children who come from war-affected areas have war injuries or other conditions that require intensive specialist care. According to the instructions of the Ministry of Justice, in correctional facilities and shelters, refugees will be under the care of teaching staff, whose task is rehabilitation activities.

Due to the change in the direction of activities of institutions, their employees will have to acquire the necessary professional competencies. Therefore, according to the Commissioner for Human Rights, the teaching staff of these institutions should be trained to help people with different needs related to the trauma of war and the experience of migration.