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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.
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