SECTION 2. security and insurance company” as to voluntary insurance of senior, rank-andfile and hired personnel against accidents. SPSU Department in Luhansk Region groundlessly extended the effect of this memorandum also on prisoners, as a result of which the wages of 34 female prisoners at Seleznivka Penitentiary (No. 143) were subject to 75 UAH deductions as insurance payments. Thus the total insurance payment amounted to 2550 UAH and in October 2013 the accounting section of the penitentiary transferred this sum to the “Ukrainian security and insurance company”. In violation of Art. 110 of the Labor Code of Ukraine and of Art. 30 of the Law of Ukraine “On Labor Remuneration” the administration of the penitentiary and the company failed to inform the prisoners about the amounts of their pay and, specifically, its calculated amount, the amounts of deductions and their grounds, and the amounts to be transferred to personal accounts. In violation of the Resolution of the USSR State Committee for Labor and of the Presidium of the All-Union Council of Trade Unions No. 731/P-13 of December 16, 1987 “On the procedures of free provision of milk or other similar foodstuffs to workers and employees engaged in work under hazardous conditions” the prisoners who worked at production sites with hazardous working conditions (including foundries, electric and gas welding works, etc.) were not getting free milk and were not additionally paid for such work in the amount established by law. Despite measures taken the level of medical assistance to prisoners at penitentiaries and remand prisons is insufficient, which may be regarded as a manifestation of ill-treatment. 91 Joint NPM and civic monitoring of the current status of respect of the right to medical care of proper quality in remand prisons resulted in the Special Report of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights on “The status of medical assistance in remand prisons of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine”. In this report the Commissioner reflected the issues with medical examination in remand prisons, availability of health care professionals, quality of diagnostic and other equipment, efficiency of measures for prevention of infectious diseases within institutions, exercise of the right to health care of the vulnerable categories of prisoners – persons with tuberculosis, HIV/ AIDS, hepatitis, drug addicts, mental patients, women, minors and people with special needs. The report carries references to various international documents that prescribe basic requirements for health care support in custodial settings. The results of the conducted monitoring served as the basis for relevant recommendations to the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine with regard to improvement of the conditions for medical services in remand prisons. Monitoring visits and follow-up analysis of how the right to medical assistance is respected in penitentiary institutions revealed systemic nature of the following violations: • poor conditions of detention of prisoners with contagious tuberculosis; • improper examination of prisoners for HIV infection and insufficient level of medical care for prisoners with HIV/ AIDS; • inadequate supply of medical units with the necessary medical equipment and medicines;