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• Topics / Penal institutions
The Rights of Convicted Prisoners with Tuberculosis
07.09.2006
The results presented here of surveys and monitoring carried out among prisoners and ex-prisoners, medical personnel and others, make extremely disturbing reading and show that the situation with tuberculosis in penal institutions is in no way under control
Tuberculosis and overcrowding in holding facilities and penal institutions
01.09.2006
Prisoners are held in overcrowded cells, and only this year have people suffering from tuberculosis started receiving proper treatment, and then not all of them
Pre-trial detention centres [SIZO] in Ukraine and how they comply with international norms
29.08.2006
An analysis of how Ukrainian legislation regulating the rules and conditions for holding individuals remanded in custody in pre-trial detention centres (SIZO) comply with the standards and recommendations of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
I pray for you each day - on the Penal System in Ukraine
28.08.2006
The author, with twenty years experience working within the penal system, calls for major changes in how the authorities and society view punishment and deprivation of liberty. Those who commit crimes should be punished, certainly, but not crippled for life.
Prosecutor criticizes infringements by the Vinnytsa region MIA and Penal Department
23.08.2006
The Vinnytsa Region Prosecutors office reports infringements in holding detained individuals, convicted prisoners, and those remanded in custody.
Suicide attempt by prisoners in Berdyansk
21.08.2006
Five inmates attempted suicide in order to improve the regime in the penal institution
At the Sokyryanska Penal Colony prisoners received worm-ridden bread
17.08.2006
This is hopefully a positive example of the impact media and public attention can have on the conditions in Ukrainian penal institutions
Does Ukraine face a wave of prison unrest?
11.08.2006
A recent interview given by a former head of the Kharkiv regional division of the Department for the execution of sentences paints a worrying - and familiar - picture of the situation in Ukraines penal institutions. Many of his allegations have been angrily denied by the current holder of this post
Prisoners rights and countering torture: does the situation in Ukraine comply with civilized standards?
27.06.2006
Yevhen Zakharov and Arkady Bushchenko discuss progress and changes still needed to eradicate the use of torture
New rules on correspondence for prisoners
31.05.2006
The Lviv region Prosecutors office confirms abuse by the administration of penal settlement No. 30 in Lviv
28.05.2006
Kharkiv human rights activists name the reasons for the recent cases of attempted suicide (or self-injury) in penal institutions
18.05.2006
The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group considers that the acts of self-injury amongst people on remand or prisoners in Kharkiv and Lviv were the direct result of cruel treatment from the administrations of these institutions.
Human rights activists wish to check the activities of special enforcement units (riot police, etc)
07.05.2006
Worrying reports of special subdivisions being deployed in some penal institutions, subjecting prisoners to violence and humilation
Rights of women prisoners are being violated in Chernihiv Penal Colony No. 44
17.08.2005
Prisoners call for help
17.08.2005
The editorial office of RUPOR received a letter from Vinnitsa. Prisoners of two penitentiaries tell about the horrible situation with human rights in these establishments.
A person deprived of liberty is not deprived of the right to be a human being
10.06.2005
On 7 April a press conference of Volodymir Butenko, the head of the Kharkiv regional branch of the State department of penitentiaries, was held in the press-center of the informational agency “Status Quo”. The topic of the conference was “New priorities of penitentiary system”.
Reform of the criminal-executive system
10.06.2005
Open letter to Volodymir Moysik, the Head of the Committee of the Supreme Council of Ukraine in charge of legislative provision of law-enforcing activities, from Oleksandr BUKALOV, the Head of the association of penitentiaries of Ukraine.
Penitentiary system of Ukraine in 2004
10.05.2005
Some statistics.
Situation in preliminary prisons and improper financing of penitentiaries may bring to unpredicted deplorable consequences
27.07.2004
Violations of the Constitutional rights of citizens and the demands of the laws concerning the material, medical and sanitary provision of convicts in preliminary prisons are systematic. This depressing conclusion was made after a check conducted by the prosecutors office.
Behind the bars. The note about the conditions in the Ukrainian penitentiaries, in particular, the epidemic situation.
15.12.2003
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