Bialystok

Bialystok Guarded centre for Aliens

Poland

Status

In use

2025

Type: Immigration detention centre (Administrative)

Custodial Authority: Ministry of Interior

Management: Border Guard (Governmental)

Detains: Adult men, Asylum seekers (administrative), Undocumented migrants (administrative)

Capacity Reported population Deaths at facility
159
125

31 December 2024

Yes

20 November 2013

Poland

2,943

Migration Detainees

2,293

Migration Detainee Entries

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FACILITY NAMES
Bialystok Guarded centre for Aliens
Location

Country: Poland

City & Region: Bialystok, Europe

Latitude, Longitude: 53.1494, 23.1642

Contact Information
1 Armii Wojska Polskiego 7, 15-001 Białystok, Poland
+48 85 675 00 91

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status
Status
Year
In use
2025
In use
2024
In use
2022
In use
2021
In use
2020
Last documented use
2018
In use
2015
In use
2013
Facility type
Category
Type
Year
Administrative
Immigration detention centre
2017
National typology
Official Typology
Year
Strzezony osrodek
2018
Management
Management
Type
Year
Border Guard
Governmental
2017
Outsourced services and non-state actors
Provider
Service
Year
Unknown Service Provider
Food services
2020
Operating Period
Year of entry
Year ceased
2008

DETAINEES

Demographics

Adult men

2025

Adult men

2024

Adult men

2023

Adult men

2022

Families

2022

Accompanied minors

2022

Adult women

2022

Adult men

2021

Adult men

2017

Adult women

2013

Unaccompanied minors

2013

Families

2013

Accompanied minors

2013
Categories of detainees

Asylum seekers (administrative)

2015

Undocumented migrants (administrative)

2015

SIZE & POPULATION

Capacity (specialised migration-related facility)

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 159

2024

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 159

2023

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 159

2022

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 141

2021

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 122

2021

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 122

2020

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 122

2017

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 136

2013
Total Migration Detainees: Entries + Remaining from Previous Year

Number 538

2024

Number 543

2023
Reported Single-Day Migration Detainee Population at Facility (day)
Number
Date
125
31 December 2024
57
31 December 2023
155
31 December 2022
134
31 December 2021
40
31 December 2020
69
29 December 2019
20
29 December 2018
79
24 January 2017
55
1 October 2012
78
2 January 2012
Reports of Detainee Overpopulation at Facility

Yes

2022

Yes

2021

LENGTH OF DETENTION

Detention Timeframe (long, medium, short)

Length Long-term (more than 20 days)

2017
Average Days in Detention

Number of Days 66

2010
Average Days in Detention (Asylum Procedure)
Average Days
Year
77
2020

OUTCOMES

CONDITIONS

Inadequate conditions
Inadequate Conditions
Obvs. Date
2017
2017
2017

CARCERAL INDICATORS

Carceral Environment

Yes

2024

Yes

2023

Yes

2022
External Security Regime

High security

2022

Secure

2017

STAFF

SEGREGATION

Gender Segregation

Yes

2013
Age Segregation

Not Applicable

2013
Legal Segregation

Family Segregation

Yes

2013

CELLS

At Least Three Square Meters Per Detainee

Yes

2023

Yes

2022
Security/Isolation Cells

Yes

2023

COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES

Skills Development for Adults

No

2022
Language Classes

No

2022
Remunerated Work

No

2022

HEALTH

Psychological Evaluation upon Arrival

No

2023
Psychologist Visits

At least once a week

2024

Daily

2023
Inadequate health provisions
Inadequate Health Provisions
Obvs. Date
Psychological care
2022
Reports of Deaths
Name of deceased individual
Date of death
N.A.
20 November 2013

MONITORING & ACCESS

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Access to Telephones

Limited

2023
Free Outgoing Local Calls

No

2023
Access to Personal Cell Phones

Yes (with restrictions)

2023