A convict diagnosed with a depression and suicidal thoughts was transferred from Penitentiary Facility 8 to Healthcare Facility for Offenders 18 on December 1, 2014. During the admission to the healthcare facility the patient was anxious, perplexed and stating that s/he was sick and reluctant to communicate. S/he complained about ‘noise inside the head’ and voices. ‘Kill yourself, I want to have some rest, I see insects, fears are clinging on me’. According to the staff, the patient would often throb the head against a wall and express suicidal thoughts. According to the patient, s/he used to abuse substances and take psychotropic drugs. S/he had swallowed a nail-clipper and a toothbrush before, which was confirmed by an X-ray. The convict would insist that s/he be transferred to the National Centre of Mental Health where s/he claimed s/he was feeling good. In the Institution N18 the patient was diagnosed with emotionally instable personologial disorder – depression, mental and behavioral disorder caused by simultaneous use of various substances and psychotropic drugs. The patient was prescribed Neirolepsin, Diazepam, Truxal, Sophanax, Tizercin and Fevarin. On December 2, 2014, at 14:35 the patient committed suicide by strangling. Based on the information outlined above, the patient had been asking for psychiatric help but to no avail. In order to prevent such grave incidences in the future, it is critical that adequate psychiatric assistance be rendered to patients in a timely manner, in particular in cases when patients themselves ask for and there is a medical record corroborating such need. L.M. According to information provided by the Ministry of Corrections the convict had repeatedly inflicted self-injuries including a period he spent in the Penitentiary Institution N17. On December 10, 2014 s/he amputated the nail phalange of the first finger on the right hand. S/he had confirmed a long time abuse of drugs (Heroin and Subotex since s/he was a child) and suffered from schizophrenia. S/he would insist on Diazepam and was reluctant to adhere to a doctor’s recommendation. A consultation note completed by a psychiatrist on March 29, 2014 says that ‘[the patient] is skeptical to treatment recommendations, asks for revision of his/her case, complains that s/he is constantly being cheated and s/he will go from one hell to another’. At the consultations held with the psychiatrists on October 20 and November 20, the patient did not express suicidal thoughts. The convict went on a hunger strike on several occasions during 2014 to protest against his/her illegal imprisonment. On December 10, 2014 at 9:20 am the staff on a morning checkup discovered in a cell toilet hanging on a wall with a rope noose. He had already been dead. NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM OF GEORGIA 113