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Jacek Cichocki: WARSAW, Poland

Inadequate Medical Care Dept: Jacek Cichocki spoke after ordering inspections of the country's five centres last month following complaints from some refugees of prison-like conditions, humiliating treatment by armed guards, inadequate medical care and a lack of schooling for children, according to Montreal Gazette. The centre in Lesznowola, near Warsaw, will go through major renovation, which it badly needs and wARSAW, Poland - Living conditions and the treatment of illegal immigrants at Poland's detention centres will be improved, the interior minister said Monday. Cichocki said in a statement posted on the ministry website that inmates will now be allowed to move freely inside the centres. Children currently some 47 will attend classes run by trained instructors who speak foreign languages and will have play space arranged for them in every centre. Guards will go through training that will help them better understand the needs of people from other cultures and their language. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.