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the exercise yards need proper renovation, rain canopies and the conditions for proper
physical exercise.
Drainage pipes and gutters in the enclosed areas on the roofs of secure buildings do not
function properly, as a result of which the ceilings and walls in the premises beneath are in
appalling sanitary condition. Lighting on the stairs used to take prisoners out for exercise
is absent altogether.
Zaporizhzhya remand prison
Kharkiv remand prison
Luhansk penal institution (No. 17)
Kyiv remand prison
The low level of prisoners’ accommodation conditions abridges their rights under
the law.
Monitoring visits revealed a number of instances when in the cold season temperature
in the cells, dormitories and other premises of penitentiary institutions and remand
prisons was below the established standard.
In Stryzhavka (No. 81), Berdychiv (No. 70), Seleznivka (No. 143 ), Olshany (No. 53) penitentiaries
and Luhansk penal institution (No. 17) in different areas (cells, sleeping areas, room for
relatives’ visits, medical units) the temperature ranged from 10 to 18 degrees C, and
the central heating radiators were cold. In this regard the monitors received numerous
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