Requests/complaints
Recommendation to the Minister of Justice:
Increase the role of social workers by obliging them to inform in detail the newly admitted
prisoners of their rights and responsibilities, requests/complaints mechanisms and review
procedures, as well as to periodically work with prisoners, individually or in group, in relation to
their rights and responsibilities, requests/complaints mechanisms and review procedure, including
by providing the above information to the untried/convicted persons through brochures, or by
posting it on the walls in areas accessible to all prisoners
In order to ensure that prisoners can send complaints confidentially, put confidential complaint
envelopes so that the receipt of the envelope is not dependent on prison staff and the recipient of
the envelope is not identified. In addition, ensure that all prisoners have free access to materialtechnical stuff (paper, pen, envelope) and are allowed to keep a certain number of envelopes in
their cells
Ensure that the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Justice, through systematic inspection and
appropriate response, identifies and investigates the cases of violation of the rules of sending
confidential complaints in Penitentiary Establishment Nos. 2, 8, 14 and 15, as well as the cases of
exerting pressure on prisoners due to filing complaints, and punishes the perpetrators
Foreign prisoners
Proposal to the Parliament of Georgia:
Amend the Imprisonment Code and allow foreign convicts, whose families cannot enjoy short and
long visits due to living abroad, to enjoye video calls
Recommendations to the Minister of Justice:
Consider linguistic, religious and cultural characteristics of prisoners when allocating them to cells,
as well as the needs of various religious confessions when preparing food
Provide interpretation for all foreign language prisoners, if necessary; inter alia, provide
information about services and regulations applied in the facility in a language the understand
Ensure that the monitoring service studies the obstacles faced by prisoners at Establishment No. 8
in terms of calling abroad and takes measures to enable prisoners to enjoy the right to telephone
communication without any obstacle, in accordance with the rules established by law
Juveniles
Recommendations to the Minister of Justice:
Provide rehabilitation activities tailored to the individual needs of juveniles placed Establishments
Nos. 2 and 8
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