Legal Assistance for Penal Institution Staff

Specialists from the Civil Registry Office were invited to the Chernihiv Women's Penal Colony to provide legal assistance to staff.
As part of the project “Ensuring Social and Legal Protection for Penitentiary System Staff – A Guarantee of Respect for Inmate Rights”, supported by the International Renaissance Foundation, the charitable organisation “Chernihiv Women's Human Rights Centre” is conducting work to provide legal assistance to the staff of penal institutions in the Chernihiv region.
Qualified lawyers from the Chernihiv Regional Department of Justice, the Department of Labour and Social Protection of the Population, the Centre for Social Services for Family, Children and Youth, and other city institutions and organisations are being invited to these institutions to organise professional assistance in the sphere of civil and matrimonial legal relations.
In April, staff from the Chernihiv City Department for the Registration of Civil Acts held a seminar on matrimonial legal relations for the staff of the Chernihiv Women's Penal Colony. During the seminar, colony staff gained knowledge regarding marriage registration, the rights and duties of spouses, personal non-property duties and rights of spouses, the right to personal private property of a wife and husband, the rights of common joint property of spouses, and the dissolution of marriage.
The information obtained is necessary for colony staff both for protecting their own personal rights and for providing legal counselling to inmates in this area.