Our reporting activities, which are carried out with a focus on monitoring and advocacy, aim to produce verifiable information periodically, increase the knowledge about prisons through annual reports and different thematic reports, and disseminate such information. This report attempts to draw a panorama of what happened in Turkish prisons in 2022. The general situation of prisons and rights violations are discussed in the first part of the report; the second part focuses on the problems of prisoners with special needs and recommends policies to solve these problems.

This report tries to draw a panorama of what happened in Turkish prisons throughout 2021. In the first part of the report, the general situation of prisons and the course of changing practices with COVID-19 measures are mentioned, while the second part focuses on the problems of prisoners with special needs, which have changed with the pandemic, and policy recommendations are presented to solve these problems.

The Civil Society in the Penal System Association (CİSST) monitors the requests, complaints and claims of rights violations received from prisoners and their kin by means of the applications made to the human rights monitoring and supervision mechanisms. In such applications, CİSST demands from the supervision mechanisms to investigate and inspect the claims of rights violations conveyed, and invites the institutions with the authority for on-site monitoring to carry out monitoring activities at prisons and to report the outcomes of such monitoring.
This report aims to present an assessment of the applications made by CİSST throughout 2022 to the boards with the authority to inspect and supervise the human rights conditions at the prisons, and of the responses to these applications.