by the Multidisciplinary Group. A ministerial order determines the 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 the Multidisciplinary Group. The Ministry of Corrections produced a draft version of the above-mentioned ministerial order. The draft order envisages creation of initial data processing groups54 and the Multidisciplinary Group. As it is projected in the draft order, the Multidisciplinary Group and the initial data processing groups as well as the Chairperson of the Penitentiary Department should complete the process of prisoner allocation to appropriate places of deprivation of liberty according to the risk assessment results not later than by 1 January 2017. The draft ministerial order offers the following definition of a danger risk. A danger risk is a danger possibly posed by a convicted prisoner to the security of the institution, the people around, the public, the State and/or law enforcement bodies, in view of the person’s personal traits, motive of commission of crime, the actual illegal outcome, behavior in the institution and relations with the criminal world. A danger risk may be low, medium, standard or high. Low risk convicted persons will be allocated to low risk places of deprivation of liberty. High risk convicted persons will be allocated to closed places of deprivation of liberty. Standard risk convicted persons will be allocated to half-open institutions. And high risk convicted persons will be allocated to special risk institutions. According to the draft ministerial order, each data processing group will be composed of 1 representative from the institution’s security unit, 1 representative from the institution’s legal regime unit, 1 representative from the institution’s special registration unit, 1 representative from the institution’s social unit and an institution’s psychologist. Information processed by the groups (completed questionnaires) will be forwarded to the institution director who will then refer to the Multidisciplinary Group in 5 days. The Multidisciplinary Group is a consultative body to the Chairperson of the Penitentiary Department that helps the Chairperson determine categories of prisoners by their danger risks. The Multidisciplinary Group consists of leading officials (chiefs or deputy chiefs) of the Department’s relevant units who have appropriate education and professional experience as well as moral values and are able to function as members of the Multidisciplinary Group. The Multidisciplinary Group consists of 5 members: 1 representative from the Department’s social services unit, 2 representatives from the main security unit (a legal regime unit and an operative unit), 1 representative from the special registration unit and 1 Department’s psychologist. The multidisciplinary group sends it final decision on prisoner danger risk to the Department’s Chairperson recommending allocation of the prisoner to the relevant institution. 54 Each group to cover not more than 700 convicted persons. 40 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM OF GEORGIA

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