The Public Defender of Rights performs preventive systematic visits to places/facilities where people restricted in their freedom are or may be confined.

These are:

• prison facilities, i.e. prisons, remand prisons, preventive detention
• police cells
• facilities for the exercise of institutional and protective education, i.e. children’s homes, reformatories, diagnostic institutions.
• facilities for the detention of foreigners
• asylum facilities
• social service facilities, i.e. particularly in-patient social service facilities
• medical facilities, i.e. particularly mental homes, hospices, institutes for long-term patients
• facilities for social and legal protection of children, i.e. facilities for children requiring immediate assistance
• public facilities for the survival of the population in crises