Právní základ poskytování duchovní péče ve věznicích
JUDr. Lucia Madleňáková
The Article deals with a specific right of churches to provide pastoral care in premises where freedom of movement of persons is restricted. It focuses on relations between churches and the Prison Service of the Czech Republic being regulated by the state legislation as well as by the agreement concluded between the Prison Service (by its Director General) and certain ecclesiastical legal persons, where the author tries to define legal character of such legal persons. The Article considers relations between a prison chaplain and a church, the Prison Service and also other entities participating in pastoral care in prisons as well. Finally, the Article tries to answer the question whether churches that have to fulfil strict conditions to acquire the above mentioned right are disadvantaged in comparison to associations of citizens that may help to reeducate perpetrators of crimes without duty to fulfil such conditions.