1. No person may be detained in a penal or correctional institution except on the basis of a written detention order issued by the competent Public Prosecution, the competent court, or any other legally competent authority. 2. No inmate may remain in the penal and correctional institution after the period specified in the detention order. 3. When the inmate enters the penal and correctional institution, the detention order shall be summarised in the Database within the record of his category, and if he is transferred from one institution to another, the detention order and all other papers related thereto shall be sent with him. 4. Every inmate must be examined upon admission to the penal and correctional institution and his health and mental condition must be recorded in the Database. 5. Without prejudice to the legislations in force in the State, the penal and correctional institution may take the fingerprints of inmates upon their entry into the institution, and the Executive Regulation of this Decree Law shall regulate the procedures and mechanisms for dealing with fingerprints. 6. The penal and correctional institution must enable the inmate, upon entering the institution, to contact his relatives or whomever he wishes to inform them of his whereabouts.
Interpretation and application must be checked against the official text and current version.