Day schedule and rehabilitation activities
No significant changes were made114 in terms of rehabilitation-resocialization of prisoners in 2019.
Rehabilitation-resocialization measures are still fragmentary and are not tailored to the individual
needs of prisoners.115 The situation is particularly difficult in high-risk facilities, the reason of which,
like previous years, is the lack of sufficient and properly qualified staff.
For information on the ratio of adult prisoners to social workers and psychologists, who worked with
them during the visits paid to Establishments Nos. 2, 8, 14 and 15, see the table below:116
Number of
Number of
Number of
adult prisoners
social workers
psychologists
during the visit
during the visit
during the
Number of
Number of
prisoners served by prisoners served by
one social worker
one psychologist
visit
N2
1 073
7
1
153
1 073
N8
2 814
16
5
176
563
N14
911
5
1
182
911
N15
1 900
7
3
271
633
The data in the table makes it clear that the worst situation in terms of the ratio of social workers to
prisoners is in Establishment No. 15, while the worst situation in terms of the number of psychologists
is in Establishments Nos. 2 and 14. Adult prisoners in these two facilities were served by only one
114
Convicts opened a social enterprise in Establishment No. 16 (5 convicts were employed), more than 60 convicts
studied leather work, enamelwork, clothes design, photography (launched in 2017 and still ongoing). In
Establishment No. 8, 10 convicts were employed in public service (digitization of documents), 7 convicts
sentenced to life imprisonment were engaged in gardening and horticulture. Cognitive and social skills
programme was implemented in Establishment No. 6 and essential skills development training was provided in
Establishment No. 11. The group rehabilitation programme Kalga was successfully piloted at Women's
Establishment No. 5. In 2019, 278 prisoners were trained on the rights of untried/convicted persons in various
facilities.
115 The situation of rehabilitation and resocialization is reviewed in detail in the report on the visits paid to
Establishments Nos. 2, 8, 14 and 15. p. 35–38
116 Additionally, one psychologist and one social worker worked with juvenile prisoners in Establishments Nos.
2 and 8. The table does not include the number of juvenile inmates during visits to Establishments Nos. 2 and 8
either.
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