78 Conclusions and recommendations The NPM participants based their conclusions and recommendations on the norms of the current national legislation and established international norms and standards. For the most part, the recommendations presented specific proposals to administration of institutions and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan and were sent immediately after NPM group visits, to the institutions’ administration and leadership of the regions’ DIA. Nevertheless, a number of recommendations requiring special attention should be highlighted: At the legislative level: Participants of NPM EKR consider that the institute of detention centers in Kazakhstan currently plays more of a penitentiary (prison) function, although, in our opinion, such centers should incorporate in their activities the functions of detainees’ re-socialization. For this, CONSOLIDATED REPORT the functional belonging of the institution should be reviewed with the possibility of its civil transfer. Instead of cells there should be hostel-like rooms, with staff members of psychologists and social workers. There is still a quality issue of purchased via electronic procurement goods based on the price request offers. So, the purchase of mattresses for the institution is done via electronic purchases, while tender won by the supplier offering the lowest price, the quality of goods suffers. In spite of the fact that according to the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 21 July 2007 “On Public Procurement” the expert commission should identify the best technical specification of goods submitted by potential suppliers, in practice the commission is guided by price, and not by the best specification offered. Also there are a number of significant difficulties faced by the former Soviet Union citizens after they leave RH. So, after release citizens