SECTION 2. 95 Specialized psychiatric care to mental patients is hardly ever provided. Conflicts that emerge between patients entail degrading treatment in their circle. The monitoring team saw a patient with visible facial injuries who was tied to his bunk with ropes. Other prisoners from the same cell alleged that injuries had been inflicted by a cellmate in violence attack. Of particular concern to the Ombudsman is the situation with treatment of mental patients held at special institutions of the penitentiary system and, specifically, in the interregional specialized psychiatric hospital with Vilnyansk penitentiary (No. 20). Art. 106 of the Criminal Enforcement Code and Section XII of the Internal rules for penitentiary institutions (approved by the State Department of Ukraine for Enforcement of Punishments on December 25, 2013, No. 275) regulate the use of special measures to prisoners but do not discern those with mental disorders from others. As a result the mentally ill may be not only straitjacketed but also cuffed, and even firearms may be possibly used. Another problem is in the inconsistency of certain provisions of the Criminal Enforcement Code and departmental regulations with the relevant international standards. Persons with disabilities Monitoring has shown that none of the remand prisons has created the comprehensive conditions for detainees with special needs. There are practically no handrails, ramps, special detention areas, technical means of rehabilitation or health

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