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
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