XI) Discipline XI) Discipline Under Section 45 of the Imprisonment Act, a convict who shows a responsible approach to performance of the his duties by his behaviour and conduct, or by an exemplary act, and who cooperates in achieving the purpose of imprisonment, may receive a disciplinary reward, which is one of the basic motivational elements in the service of imprisonment. On the other hand, if a convict culpably breaches statutory duties or duties imposed under the law, or violates order or discipline during imprisonment, he may be subject to disciplinary punishment. 139 1) Analysis of disciplinary practice a)  Disciplinary rewards In all the prisons visited, there was an obvious drop in the quantity (frequency of awarding) of disciplinary rewards, a trend which began in 2014. The convicts across prisons complained that disciplinary rewards for cleaning, learning and work activities, etc. were no longer available, which reduced the chance of reassignment to a better permeable group of internal differentiation and release on parole. The prison staff confirmed the decrease in the frequency of disciplinary rewards, attributing it to the change in disciplinary proceedings introduced by RDG No. 70/2013, on disciplinary proceedings with accused persons, convicts and wards, effective from 1 January 2014. Based on the above-mentioned RDG, the disciplinary proceedings were substantially changed and now place more administrative demands on both the parties proposing disciplinary proceedings and those with disciplinary powers. To demonstrate the phenomenon of decreased frequency of disciplinary rewards, I have chosen information on disciplinary rewards from two of the visited prisons (Karviná, Jiřice). Karviná It is stated in the document titled Evaluation of Disciplinary Practice in Relation to Convicts in the 1st Half of 2014 that a total of 53 disciplinary rewards (and 9 disciplinary punishments) were given in the first half of 2014. For comparison, 100 disciplinary rewards (and 56 disciplinary punishments) were given in the second half of 2013, which corresponds to a decrease of 47% for disciplinary rewards (and 84% for disciplinary punishments). The documentation obtained reveals that 100 rewards for half a year had formerly been a standard (second half of 2012: 124 rewards, first half of 2013: 102 rewards, second half of 2013: 100 rewards). The figures clearly show a sudden decrease in 2014. Jiřice It is stated in the document Analysis of Disciplinary Practice in the Jiřice Prison for 2014 that 404 disciplinary rewards were given in the prison in 2014, which corresponds to a decline by 72% in 139 Section 46 of the Imprisonment Act. /52/