SITUATION IN PENITENTIARY INSTITUTIONS a programme, they should first be told about the availability of such programmes. In other words, an initial needs assessment should be carried out to determine the needs of the prisoners. Recommendation to the Minister of Corrections: QQ To introduce and implement various programmes aimed at prisoners’ resocialization in the Institutions no. 6, 7 and 8. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR PRISONERS QQ In the period of January – December 2013, 506 sentenced prisoners were employed on paid jobs. Normally, inmate work duties were related to cleaning, tidying up, doing laundry, distributing food, etc. Starting 2 October 2013, sixty sentenced prisoners were employed in the Institution No. 2, seventeen in the Institution No. 5, thirty-two prisoners were registered at the logistics unit in the Institution No. 6, only five in the Institution No. 7 of whom only four inmates are still having their jobs (two of them are cleaning stories and the two other prisoners are tasked with the same at the kitchen), one hundred thirty prisoners work in the Institution No. 8, five in the Institution No. 9, thirty-two inmates were employed in the Institution No. 12 in the period of 2 October – 31 December 2013, sixty-two in the Institution No. 14, up to fifty prisoners in the Institution No. 15 (of whom twelve individuals were employed at the bakery located inside the institution and were collecting wages accordingly), eight inmates had paid jobs at the local bakery in the Institution No. 16 in the period of 1 January – 31 December 2013, seventy-eight inmates had paid jobs at the logistics unit in the Institution No. 17, only two prisoners in the Institution No. 18 and 25 inmates in the Institution No. 19. PRISONER ALLOCATION QQ Prisoners are accommodated according to the category and seriousness of the crime committed, by types of institutions operated by the Georgian Penitentiary Department.61 Individuals convicted for less serious or serious crimes punishable with up to ten years of imprisonment will serve their sentence in half-open institutions. Those who have been convicted for particularly serious intentional crimes for the first time will have to serve their sentence in closed-type institutions.62 In mixed-type institutions, remand prisoners must be isolated from the sentenced prisoners, at least by being accommodated in different residential spaces.63 The Public Defender is often times being approached by sentenced prisoners who have had problems with maintaining contact with the outside world due to their transfer to another institution. For them, it is important to maintain as much contact with their families and friends as possible within the applicable rules. The Public Defender is receiving numerous applications from prisoners and their family members requesting to be transferred to other institutions so that they are closer to their near people. Article 46 of the Code of Imprisonment stipulates that sentenced prisoners should serve their sentences in appropriate types of institutions that are closest by their location to their homes or where their close relatives live, except when such institution cannot accept the prisoner do to overcrowding. In exceptional circumstances, such as health condition, security considerations and/or at the prisoner’s consent, a sentenced prisoner may be transferred to another institution. We would like to note the importance of prisoners’ contact with their close relatives as one of the means of resocialization. 61 Code of Imprisonment, Article 61(1). 62 Code of Imprisonment, Article 64(1). 2013 The Order of the Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance No. 184 dated 27 December 2010 determines the types of institutions operated by the Georgian Penitentiary Department. However, the real situation in the prisons does not match the conditions described in the rules governing the relevant types of prisons. For example, the Order says that the Penitentiary Institution No. 6 is both a half-open and a closed-type institution for sentence prisoners but the actual conditions in the Institution No. 6 are not such as to allow the inmates to exercise the rights they are entitled to in a half-open regime. 63 Code of Imprisonment, Article 9(2). NPM Report 25