of training. With a view of making it compatible with the international human rights standards, amend the draft ministerial order “on types of risks,
risk assessment criteria, rules of assessing and reviewing risks, procedures
and conditions of moving convicted persons to a place of deprivation of liberty of the same or other type, and the composition and rights of a multidisciplinary group”.
•• In relation to convicted prisoners who have been allocated to half-open in-
stitutions, move such prisoners, in shortest time possible, respectively to
half-open institutions where they can enjoy their freedom to the full extent
guaranteed by the Georgian legislation.
•• Since the penitentiary institution no. 6 does not have appropriate infrastructure for the prisoners to enjoy the aforementioned right, do not send prisoners who have to serve their sentence in half-open type places of deprivation
of liberty to Institution no. 6.
•• Amend the draft Order of the Minister of Corrections “on determining rules
and procedures for visual and/or electronic surveillance and control and for
retention, deletion and destruction of recordings” in a way to provide that a
decision to put a person under visual and/or electronic surveillance and control is well-reasoned and explains why this measure is necessary and cannot
be replaced by other measures.
•• Amend the draft Order of the Minister of Corrections “on determining rules
and procedure for visual and/or electronic surveillance and control and for
retention, deletion and destruction of recordings” in a way to provide that
meetings of the Public Defender/Special Preventive Group members with
accused and convicted persons are confidential and no eavesdropping or observation is permissible.
•• Amend “Types of specials means possessed by bodies responsible for en-
forcement of pretrial detention and imprisonment as well as rules and conditions of storing, carrying and using such means; rules of determining persons
authorized to use the special means” approved by the Order of the Minister
of Corrections no. 145 dated 12 September 2014 prohibiting the fastening of
prisoners to a fixed surface using handcuffs and establishing that, whenever
handcuffs are used, the prisoner concerned is kept under adequate supervision.
•• Comprehensively inquire into the legality of use of a straitjacket in relation
to accused L.Q. and take appropriate measures against those responsible.
•• Ensure that the relevant laws and bylaws are strictly adhered to in each special means are used by, inter alia, organizing intensive training for the staff
and increasing staff accountability.
PROPOSAL TO THE PARLIAMENT:
NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM OF GEORGIA
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