CAT/OP/KAZ/1/Add.1 Paragraph 127 The Subcommittee welcomes the creation of a probation system to facilitate the social rehabilitation, reinsertion and reintegration of those granted early release. It recognizes that early conditional release is increasingly used, which is positive. The Subcommittee recommends that such release be implemented more transparently. 264. In 2017, 5,642 convicted prisoners were released from places of deprivation of liberty (versus 7,249 in 2016), including 1,289 released on completion of their sentence (versus 1,834 in 2016) and 3,102 released on parole with the unserved portion of their sentence being commuted to a milder penalty (versus 5,364 in 2016). 265. In the current year, 461 convicted prisoners applied to the administration of an institution for assistance on their release (versus 418 in 2016), and they were referred to various social and treatment institutions, including 149 to social adaptation centres (versus 97 in 2016) and 103 to outpatient clinics (versus 118 in 2018). 266. The introduction of penitentiary probation will make it possible to prepare convicted prisoners more thoroughly ahead of their release. It will be carried out in close cooperation with government agencies, NGOs and civil society and will be aimed at helping convicted prisoners to reintegrate into society. Paragraph 130 The Subcommittee recommends allowing mothers and their small children to live together in conditions that maximally resemble life in the community. In the light of rule 52 (3) of the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules), special transitional measures in terms of ensuring further contact should be considered once children have reached the age of 3. In line with rule 59 of the Nelson Mandela Rules, prisoners should be allocated, to the extent possible, to prisons close to their homes. 267. Pursuant to article 116 of the Penalties Enforcement Code, children’s units have been set up in institutions of the penal correction system to create the conditions necessary for the normal accommodation and development of children aged under 3 years. Women convicted prisoners can place their children in such units and, when they are not working, can spend as much time with them as they wish. 268. Medical care is provided for women convicted prisoners who are pregnant or in labour and for their children within the framework of the guaranteed volume of free medical care (Government Decision No. 2136 of 15 December 2009 and Ministry of Internal Affairs Order No. 314 of 7 April 2015 approving rules for the provision of medical care for citizens whose freedom has been restricted and persons serving court-imposed penalties in places of deprivation of liberty or placed in special institutions). 269. One of these children’s units has been set up at institution LA-155/4 of the Almaty province Departmental Penal Correction System, providing temporary care for up to 50 children aged under 3 years. 270. The children’s unit has all the necessary equipment and facilities. The work is organized by the director of the children’s unit and the staff, which includes a paediatrician, a neurologist, a psychiatrist, five nurses, a radiographer, a midwife, an aide, teachers and nannies. 271. The children are examined by doctors on a daily basis. Children aged over 3 years are placed in the care of a close relative of the convicted prisoner. In the event that a convicted prisoner does not have any close relatives or they refuse to take the child, the child is placed in a children’s home, in accordance with a court decision. GE.19-01981 31