**8. Drug counseling center of the Czech Republic prison service**

A drug counseling center, which is established in all prisons, is an advisory body of the prison director. The counseling center collects statistical data from the antidrug area, deals with the issues in the area of drug abuse prevention, including treatment of users and non-users in terms of general principles of safety and treatment of people placed in detention facilities and prisons. The drug counseling center is established by a respective prison director.

The staff of the drug counseling center usually consists of specialized prison employees such as:


#### **9. Drug-free zones**

Drug-free zones are established based on Act. No. 169/1999 Sb., Prison Act, and based on the internal regulation that stipulates the rules for the establishment and functioning of drug-free zones. The goal is to prevent the contact of prison inmates

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with addictive substances and their users. These zones are separated from the other accommodation areas and the above-standard amenities make it possible to apply a drug-free regimen and serve differentiated sentences. Only the inmates with no drug history who do not want to be exposed to the other users' pressure are placed there. They voluntarily undergo reference testing, which detects the drug presence. The drug-free zone is established in order to minimize possible contacts of inmates with drugs, to apply drug-free regimen and to enable serving differentiated sentences for imprisoned drug users for the sake of reducing health and social risks of their addiction. The drug-free zone in prison is established and disestablished by the managing director of penology. The drug-free zone is a separated complex, which includes accommodation facilities, culture room, room for self-service activities and possibly other facilities such as work rooms, multi-purpose rooms, workstations, dining room, walking premises. The inmate is placed in a drug-free zone upon inmate's written request if the established criteria are met and if there is vacancy in the drug-free zone. The request includes inmate's statement in which the inmate undertakes to voluntarily follow the rules and principles of behavior stipulated in the drug-free zone regulations. The inmate is removed from the drug-free zone if he/she provably abused a drug or refused to have his/her abstinence checked or refused to have a body fluid sample taken. The inmate is usually removed also for the following reasons:


In the drug-free zone project, in the individual training plan and in the employment contract the prison director, upon motion of the detention and imprisonment department manager, sets the competence and scope of obligations for each specialized employee who treats inmates in the drug-free zone. The goal of placing inmates in the drug-free zone is to create conditions for them to abstain in prison. A standard drugfree zone is usually established in the accommodation area separated from the other inmates. The methods and forms of treatment consist in taking standard approach in safety, psychology and pedagogy, which affects the inmate's view of the drug, motivates him/her to abstain, and to have a healthy lifestyle while being in prison as well as afterward. The following inmates are placed in a standard drug-free zone:

