2014-2015 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE
dressed to the director of the Correction Home
regarding possibly inappropriate behaviour of
officers were registered separately; a staff member responsible for the control of drawing up of
replies to inmates’ complaints was designated;
the procedure was approved and persons were
designated responsible for elimination of faults
of various types and the control of performance
of these works; windows were glazed in temporary detention and penalty isolation cells (it was
not possible to ensure the established indicator
of natural lighting, because that would require
the reconstruction of a building). The Prison
Department conducted targeted inspections
in imprisonment institutions regarding the
registration of detainees’ requests, applications
and complaints, provided recommendations to
imprisonment institutions regarding filming of
searches and the procedure for keeping records,
provided for nutrition of detainees according to
a special dietary menu, analysed in detail measures envisaged and performed in 2015 related to
recruitment of specialists to health care services
of subordinate institutions, and drew up an action plan as to how to fill in vacant positions of
health care specialists.
their consent to it; whether persons who were
imposed with the solitary confinement penalty
were visited by a health care specialist on a
regular basis. Particular institutions were also
given other recommendations with regard to
ensuring appropriate, safe and secure detention
conditions, appropriate and sufficient provision
of the necessary items, organisation of nutrition,
adaptation of premises for the disabled, properly
informing inmates of their rights and obligations, organisation of inmates’ leisure, training
for the staff, etc.
Recommendations following
inspections in Imprisonment Institutions
In 2014, the Seimas Ombudsmen assessed the
human rights situation in ten places of detention and accommodation of foreigners: the
Foreigners’ Registration Centre, the Refugees
Reception Centre as well as frontier stations of
Vilnius and Ignalina Frontier Districts (Gintaras
Žagunis, Dieveniškės, Pavoverė, Švenčionys,
Adutiškis, Tverečius, Puškai frontier stations and
the Headquarters of Ignalina Frontier District).
In 2015, the Seimas Ombudsmen assessed the
human rights situation in three imprisonment
institutions (two correction facilities and one
remand prison-closed prison) regarding the
human rights situation of vulnerable groups in
imprisonment institutions: Lukiškės Remand
Prison – Closed Prison, Kaunas Remand Prison
for Minors – Correction House and Panevėžys
Correction House (20 November 2015 Report
No 2015/1-99).
PLACES OF DETENTION AND
ACCOMMODATION OF FOREIGNERS
The majority of recommendations addressed
to imprisonment institutions were related to
filling vacant positions and ensuring dietary or
special nutrition for medical indications. Other
recommendations were also provided, namely
related to appropriate provision of health care
services to inmates: there were doubts as to
whether inmates were always properly informed
of the prescribed treatment and expressed
The following are the main problems and human
rights violations identified:
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