SECTION 2.
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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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