CAT/OP/KAZ/1/Add.1 body responsible for the enforcement of sentences, higher bodies, the court, procuratorial bodies, other State bodies, officials, voluntary organizations and international organizations that protect human rights and freedoms, in accordance with national legislation. Paragraph 111 The Subcommittee recalls that rule 12 (2) of the Nelson Mandela Rules requires careful selection of those confined to the same room. 232. Article 94 of the Penalties Enforcement Code clearly regulates matters relating to the separation of women, juveniles, persons with infectious diseases and persons with previous convictions. 233. The Office of the Procurator General and the Committee on the Penal Correction System are currently discussing the possibility of grouping convicted prisoners in accordance with the level of social danger of the acts that they have committed and the gravity of their offences. 234. This will involve dividing convicted prisoners held in institutions of the penal correction system into several groups. 235. These measures will help to: • Prevent the formation of prison “subcultures” • Reduce the frequency of self-harm, suicide and crime among prisoners • Create a normal “microclimate” in individual groups • Accelerate resocialization Paragraph 114 The Subcommittee recommends ensuring that prisoners enjoy standards of health care that are the same as those enjoyed by persons in the community, without discrimination, including access to dentists. Prompt access to medical attention in urgent cases needs to be ensured, including through transfer to specialized institutions or civil hospitals. Medical files should be subject to medical confidentiality. Authorities are called upon to encourage the voluntary participation of individuals with drug use disorders in treatment programmes, with the informed consent of those individuals. 236. Article 117 of the Penalties Enforcement Code regulates medical care. Medical services are administered to convicted prisoners in accordance with national legislation on health care. 237. Prison hospitals (hospitals for the treatment of physical and mental diseases and tuberculosis, medical units and medical clinics) have been set up in the penal correction system to administer medical care to convicted prisoners. The medical unit in an institution administers compulsory treatment for convicted prisoners suffering from alcoholism or drug or substance addiction. 238. The administration of the institution is responsible for implementing the sanitary and epidemiological requirements set out in legislation. 239. Tuberculosis services, epidemiological monitoring in institutions and medical examinations of convicted prisoners put forward for remission of sentence on grounds of illness are organized in accordance with national legislation. 240. In the case of the death of a person serving a sentence, the administration of the institution concerned immediately notifies, in writing, the procurator, the deceased person’s spouse or relatives and, if the deceased is a foreign national, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 28 GE.19-01981

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