In addition, during interviews the prisoners voiced complaints about the failure to adhere to food preparation technology leading to low quality and inadequate organoleptic properties: the food does not taste good, pickled cabbage is provided every day, the nutrition is limited. The food has low quality and inadequate organoleptic properties. The menu lacks variety: predominantly it includes barley and wheat porridge, the cooking process does not follow the technology (the soup is an indiscrete mass, there are many bones in the food, sometimes – chicken feathers, and fish is provided only in canned form. The usual dinner is potatoes (“resembling animal food”). During the visit to meal units of Dykanivska (#12) and Pervomaysky (#117) correctional colonies, Starobilsk remand prison, it was established that lunch salads from pickled vegetables did not contain onion and oil in violation of regulations. Nutrition of convicted and detained persons even during summer has virtually no fresh vegetables. During monitoring of penitentiary facilities, prisoners voiced complaints about violations of the labor legislation during the use and remuneration for prisoners’ work. One of the inmates of Berezan correctional colony (#95) indicated that he had been working at the unit producing items of general use during a long period, yet received three cigarettes as compensation. Following an attempt to challenge the administration’s actions, he was subjected to disciplinary measures, including transfer to a cell. Manufacturing process at certain enterprises of penitentiary facilities is not organized properly, the so-called “active” prisoners known as “brigadiers” control fulfillment of production norms and quality indicators. In addition, they perform staff functions in relation to preparing work tasks and controlling assignments on taking prisoners to manufacturing sites. The brigadiers enjoy preferential treatments by the administration, including higher wages. For instance, the average salary at the bag production unit at Pervomaysky correctional colony (#117) in June 2014 was approximately 100 UAH, whereas the brigadiers received over 700 UAH for that month. Moreover, the inmates stated that part of the produced merchandised is recorded as the brigadiers’ output so the latter would receive higher salaries. Situation at the manufacturing unit at Dykanivska (#12) correctional colony is similar. There were instances of using free labor of inmates at Pervomaysky correctional colony (#117). The prisoners were taken to manufacturing sites daily from 16:45 to 19:30 (for 2 hours 45 minutes) with no record in the worksheet. There was also no record of produced merchandise. There were other instances of using free labor due to failure to keep record of performed work at the said facility (brigade on roof repair). In 2014, administrations of penitentiary facilities continued to conclude agreements with commercial enterprises on services with the use of the customer’s raw materials (in particular, for knitwear and other goods) with minimum payment for the prisoners’ labor. For instance, in Berdychiv correctional colony (#70), the amount for worker’s salary in the price of one pair of gloves constituted 5 kopiyka. Thus, agreements concluded by many institutions are unbeneficial to prisoners since they exclude the possibility of receiving fair compensation. 134