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.
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Each group to cover not more than 700 convicted persons.
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