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MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE:
Total
No.
9
10
11
Agency in charge
Ministry of Education
and Science
Ministry of Defense
Security Service
Kind of custodial
setting
Health care boarding
schools of general
education
Special boarding
schools of general
education
Children’s homes
Disciplinary battalions
Guardhouses
Temporary detention
premises
Psychiatric clinics
Special wards
Military units
Territorial authorities
Temporary detention
facilities
Total
Table 1 demonstrates certain changes made
in the structure and number of custodial
settings. For example, currently the Ministry
of Social Policies is reorganizing children’s
asylums into social and psychological
rehabilitation centers; the Ministry of
Education reduced the number of boarding
schools for orphans and children deprived
of parental care by half, and the number
of homes for children is also going down;
the Ministry of Defense has cut by half the
number of its guardhouses; the number of
special vehicles for movement of detainees,
arrestees and convicts decreased by one
third, the Ministry of Internal Affairs closed
about thirty temporary detention facilities,
and so on.
However, as a result of monitoring efforts
new kinds of institutions were deemed to
formally meet the definition of custodial
settings. They are, specifically, the premises
Number of visits
2013
visits
Incl.
repeat
visits.
Total
1
7
8
334
3
12
2
15
104
1
4
94
1
2
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
1
3
3
18
32
2
2
4
14
337
27
4
8
386
27
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
5,973
5,784
169
262
24
431
2012
2013
2012
66
71
359
at international airports for holding
individuals not allowed into the territory
of Ukraine on grounds of violation of
the legislation on the protection of state
borders; wards for compulsory tuberculosis
treatment at anti-TB facilities and other
similar wards in the health care system.
Such settings will become eligible for NPM
monitoring in 2014.
During 2013 monitoring visits embraced
262 institutions, of which 24 were visited
for the second time. Drawing 3 and Table 2
show the breakdown of visits by agencies
in charge and by regions of Ukraine.
On the basis of the results of each visit NPM
sent detailed reports to the management
of the relevant ministry or agency, with
indication of identified deficiencies
and recommendations regarding their
elimination.
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