Monitoring visit to State Institution ‘Bila Tserkva Correctional Colony (No. 35)’
One of the tasks of the monitoring visit was to verify the performance indicators for correctional colonies and pre-trial detention centres announced by the Ministry of Justice.
Monitoring visit to State Institution ‘Zhytomyr Institution for the Execution of Punishments No. 8’
The prices in the institution’s shop are inflated by approximately 30–70 per cent. Since the convicts are a socially vulnerable category of the population, such abuses are unacceptable.
Monitoring Visit to the State Institution "Shepetivka Penal Colony No. 98"
In the multidisciplinary hospital, the cells for inmates serving life sentences are in a dilapidated state. There is mould on the walls, and the sanitary facilities require a major overhaul. The Centre for Health Care did not allocate funds for repairs this year.
Monitoring Visit to the State Institution "Zhytomyr Penal Colony No. 4"
The monitors have significant suspicions that the labour rights of inmates are being grossly violated at the facility's production site and that some of them are working without a proper formalisation of employment relations with the enterprise.
Monitoring Visit to the State Institution "Zamkova Penal Colony No. 58"
Due to total underfunding, the administration is forced to carry out only current repairs each year, so the money spent does not improve the conditions of detention in any way and is spent only on maintaining the existing state.
Monitoring Visit to the State Institution "Kholodnohirska Penal Colony No. 18"
When asked by the monitors about the size of their wages, inmates reported different information, although the majority indicated that the amount of remuneration is no less than the minimum wage in Ukraine.
Monitoring Visit to the State Institution "Korosten Penal Colony No. 71"
The institution's medical unit is satisfactorily supplied with medicinal products, although from time to time medics still encounter a lack of the simplest medicinal products. Thus, at the time of the visit, Citramon was missing.
Monitoring visit to Vinnytsia Prison No. 1
This institution serves as a remand prison and includes a section for those sentenced to life imprisonment. Compared to other institutions holding life-sentenced prisoners, this one houses the largest number of such convicts.
Monitoring visit to Zamkova Correctional Colony No. 58
No obstacles were created by the institution’s management. Monitors were able to visit any room or section of the institution.
Monitoring visit to State Institution ‘Kryvyi Rih Prison No. 3’
Monitors were not allowed into the medical unit at all. On the demand to provide a written refusal of access, the nurse on duty replied that as the request was oral, she would provide an oral refusal.
Monitoring visit to State Institution ‘Pervomaiska Corrective Colony No. 117’
In the sewing workshop, sewing machines were running loudly and there was a strong smell of plastic, but the prisoners did not have any individual protective equipment.