recommendation prohibited simultaneous nakedness of different parts of a person's body. This
recommendation has not been implemented.
One of the recommendations made to the Ministry of Justice of Georgia concerned the assessment and
classification of convicts' risks. In particular, the Special Preventive Group proposed the following
changes in the risk assessment rules: to determine the obligation of the penitentiary establishment to
inform convicts of the risk assessment criteria and procedures when placing convicts in the facility and
before the risk assessment procedure; to determine the right of the convicts to express their opinion
during risk assessment on the circumstances that serve as the basis for assessing their risks, as well as
to determine the obligation to reassess the risks of high-risk convicts at least once in every 6 months.
This recommendation has been endorsed by the Parliament of Georgia and has been reflected in its
resolution. The recommendation has not been implemented.
One of the recommendations made to the Ministry of Justice of Georgia was to abolish the obligation
of convicts to clean corridors, staircases and other places, by amending the regulations of Penitentiary
Establishment No. 16. This recommendation has not been implemented.
One recommendation to the Ministry of Justice of Georgia concerned the isolation of prisoners for
security reasons. In particular, the Special Preventive Group demanded to make amendments to the
regulations of penitentiary establishments to determine the maximum period of isolation of prisoners,
as well as to determine the obligation of revising the measure of isolation after 14 days of its application
and thereafter, at the same interval. This recommendation has not been implemented.
7 recommendations to the Ministry of Justice of Georgia concerned rehabilitation and re-socialization
of prisoners. In particular, in the first recommendation, the Special Preventive Group called on the
Ministry to ensure that prisoners placed in closed and high-risk facilities could spend more than an
hour in the open air. The monitoring carried out by the Special Preventive Group in 2019 made it clear
that mentioned recommendation had not been implemented.
In the second recommendation, the Public Defender requested: to introduce in semi-open facilities the
rehabilitation programmes that were implemented in low-risk facilities; to introduce the rehabilitation
programmes, which were implemented in semi-open facilities, in closed institutions; to introduce the
rehabilitation programmes, which were implemented in closed facilities, in high-risk facilities, and to
take into account the infrastructure and safety norms of each facility in this process, as well as to cover
more prisoners in the rehabilitation programmes in each penitentiary establishment in 2019. The
recommendation relating to the implementation of rehabilitation programmes for more prisoners has
been endorsed by the Parliament of Georgia and has been reflected in its resolution. We have not
received a reply to the letter sent to the Ministry of Justice of Georgia,39 in which we requested
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On October 11, 2019, the National Preventive Mechanism sent a letter (N03-3/11037) to the Special
Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice, requesting information on the situation of implementation of the
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