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analysis offers the possibility to depict what happens on a practical level by the subordinates and
gives the supervisor the possibility to see whether the dynamics of the statistical development
comply with policies and guidelines.
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The analyses also objectively depict drastic changes within the percentages as well as
compare it to previous years.
256.
Article 159 of the CPC specifically prescribes a certain framework within which
detention shall be used as a measure of restraint. Namely, it can be applied only with respect to
crimes for which the legislation of Georgia foresees deprivation of liberty for two or more years.
Detention as a measure of restraint as a rule is not used towards seriously ill persons, minors,
persons over a certain age (women 60 and men 65), women who are pregnant 12 or more weeks
or have a baby (of up to one year), and also towards persons who has committed a crime out of
negligence – except in exceptional cases, when the criminal legislation envisaged deprivation of
liberty for three or more years. Certain exemptions apply to victims of trafficking.
257.
Recommendation (k) stated: Pre-trial and convicted prisoners be strictly separated;
258.
According to non-governmental sources, whereas Georgian law requires pre-trial and
convicted prisoners to be separated, frequently they are detained in the same blocks and even in
the same cell.
259.
The Government informed that the Law on Imprisonment provides different regimes
for pre-trial detainees and convicted prisoners and accordingly they are strictly separated from
each other.
260.
Recommendation (l) stated: The number of persons confined in detention not
exceed the official capacity of the respective facility;
261.
According to non-governmental sources, overcrowding remains one of the most serious
problems in the Georgian penitentiary system. In May 2006, Tbilisi Prison No. 5, designed to
accommodate 1,800 prisoners, was holding 3,559. At Rustavi Prison No. 1, with a capacity of
holding 1,000 prisoners, there were some 1,361 detainees. There is also severe overcrowding in
prisons in Batumi and Zugdidi in western Georgia. The Batumi facility has a capacity of 250, but
as of September 2006 held some 565 detainees. In Zugdidi, there are 407 detainees in a prison
with a capacity of 305. In May 2006, the new prisons, Rustavi Prison No. 6 and Kutaisi Prison
No. 2, were not overcrowded. Rustavi Prison No. 6 was operating at close to its capacity of 728
inmates with 707 inmates. Kutaisi Prison No. 2, with a capacity of 1,500, but holding 1,423, was
similarly operating just under capacity. The Republican Prison Hospital was also operating close
to capacity. Overcrowding was also endemic in women’s and juvenile cells with frequent cases
of bed sharing.
262.
The Government informed that the problem of overcrowding in some of the prisons
gives rise to serious concerns. However, immediate steps to address these problems have been
taken and continue to have a positive effect. The financial resources allocated during the last
years have been drastically increasing in order to meet all minimum standards in all prisons on
equal level:
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