2014-2015 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE plan for the implementation of the recommendations providing for a timeframe and employees responsible for appropriate implementation of the recommendations. prepared for life in the society following the end of their sentence. Following inspections conducted in imprisonment institutions, 46 recommendations were provided to the management of the Prison Department under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania and inspected institutions. Out of that number, 44 were implemented, and positions are being coordinated regarding the implementation of 2 (two) recommendations. Kaunas Remand Prison for Minors – Correction House took steps to receive additional staffing positions to ensure appropriate functioning of the Health Care Service; check whether medical case histories contain entries confirming consent of detainees and convicts and signatures regarding health check-ups and prescribed treatment; update information files kept in cells and ensure that informational documentation kept in cells was checked every working day and that the head of the division would stress to his staff the necessity of appropriate familiarization of persons with their rights and obligations as well as amended legal acts during every staff meeting; ensure that each morning everyone willing were registered to a reception with the staff of the administration of the institution and install boxes for submission of appeals; ensure that the staff of the Social Rehabilitation Division provide social services to detainees; ensure that leisure activities are actively pursued with convicts taking them out of their cells. For good behaviour, work and studies inmates are encouraged by trips to events or social campaigns outside the institution; a draft order amending the order of the director of the institution “On Approval of Positive Leisure Measures and Appointment of the Staff Responsible for their Implementation” is under preparation; in 2016, the environment of the institution will be adapted to persons with a physical disability (the installation of wheelchair ramps); in 2016, premises of the institution will be adapted to keeping persons with a physical disability; in 2016, appropriate lighting will be installed in a disciplinary isolation cell; sanitary The Prison Department informed that the following topics had been included into a plan of upgrading of qualifications of the staff of imprisonment institutions in the Training Centre for 2016: work with minors and women, and the use of handcuffs, straitjackets and other restraining means; 12 special certified beds for restraining persons going wild had been acquired and transferred to imprisonment institutions and recommendations regarding their use were under preparation; where possible, searches conducted in imprisonment institutions were filmed; there was a plan to improve legal regulation regarding a penalty imposed on minors, namely, closing them in a disciplinary isolation cell; in 2016, appropriations from the state budget were provided for the installation of wheelchair ramps and adaptation of residential premises of imprisonment institutions for the disabled; there was a plan to initiate amendments of the Penal Enforcement Code concerning the establishment of the procedure for the payment of expenses related to travel to long-term meetings when both spouses served their imprisonment sentences. Kaunas Remand Prison for Minors – Correction House agreed with all the recommendations issued by the Seimas Ombudsman and drew up a 29

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