SECTION 2.
Criminal Enforcement Code of Ukraine
the number and duration of convicted
prisoners’ meetings with their lawyers is not
limited. In accordance with the European
Prison Rules all prisoners are entitled to
legal assistance and the administration of
penal institutions is to provide reasonable
opportunities for access to such assistance.
On this basis on April 12, 2013 Zhytomyr
Administrative Appeal Court satisfied
the relevant complaint, quashed the
earlier resolution Zhytomyr Precinct
Administrative Court and deemed
unlawful the refusal of the administration
of Berdychiv penitentiary No. 70 to grant
the prisoner in question a meeting with his
lawyer.
During the interview with the inmates of
Ivano-Frankivsk remand prison a female
prisoner complained that within a week
of her custody in the institution and
in violation of the law she was neither
informed about the procedure for the
exercise of her right to communication with
relatives and the procedure for accessing
counsel, nor provided with information
about the possibilities of psychological
assistance.
In some penitentiary institutions the
prisoners’ right to phone calls (granted by
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the legislation) is unduly limited.
Seleznivka penitentiary (No. 143) has
only one telephone for the total of 322
prisoners, which significantly limits their
right to communication. As a result, the
convicts of both existing sections have to
make use of the phone under a schedule,
every other day (one day for the first
section and the other day for the second
section), and the prisoners who work at the
production facility can use the phone only
from 16.00 to 17.00. As a result, the time
each prisoner has for the conversation, in
view of the waiting list, is no longer than 5
minutes. Moreover, such restrictions also
cause conflicts between inmates.
Similar problems were revealed during
the monitoring of Berdychiv penitentiary
(No. 70). The 440 prisoners in the resocialization section could make use of
three telephones installed in a separate
room; there was also a telephone in the
higher security unit and in the unit for
lifers. However, phone conversations were
not arranged in a proper way; according
to prisoners, they had to use the phone as
per an incomprehensible schedule. They
also complained about poor quality of
signal on the line and absence of partitions
or cubicles that excluded any privacy of
communication.
In Ladyzhyn penitentiary (No. 39) during the visit one of the two available telephones was
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