•• Take all necessary measures to implement a variety of rehabilitation activi-
ties in all penitentiary institutions and to offer help, as much as possible, to
the social units of penitentiary institutions in planning and conducting various activities with participation by prisoners. In planning such activities, due
consideration should be given to areas of interest to prisoners. Measures of
encouragement should be used more often to facilitate to prisoner involvement in such activities.
•• Offer job opportunities to more prisoners in penitentiary institutions
PROPOSAL TO THE PARLIAMENT:
•• Reduce the maximum term of administrative detention to 15 days
•• Amend the Imprisonment Code so that prisoners have access to all the guar-
antees of fair trial in the proceedings related to imposition of administrative
detention
2.5. PRISON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
The right to health is an inclusive right139 and involves access to safe drinking water
and adequate sanitation, safe food, adequate nutrition and housing, healthy working
and environmental conditions, health-related education and information and gender
equality.140
Exercise of the right to health is closely related to preventive healthcare, which implies:
facilitation to health and improvement of general living conditions; food; sanitation;
intellectual and physical activities; targeted preventive measures in prisons focused
on specific problems such as infectious diseases, mental health, drug addiction and
violence.
Within the framework of the monitoring conducted in 2014, an emphasis was made on
the effective functioning of the prison healthcare system and the existing challenges.
In the course of monitoring, we interviewed the prisoners and the prison healthcare
staff; we also inspected the conditions in medical units of the penitentiary institutions
and the infrastructure at the penitentiary medical facilities.
Statistical reports and information provided by the Medical Department of the Ministry
of Corrections and individual penitentiary institutions were used during the research.
The below analysis is based on the national legislation such as laws and bylaws as well
as international standards found in hard law and soft law, in particular:
139 Right to Health, Fact Sheet No. 31, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
and World Health Organization, available at http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/
Factsheet31.pdf [last visit on 31.05.2014].
140 General comment no. 14 (2000) on the right to health, adopted by the Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights.
82 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM OF GEORGIA
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