CONSOLIDATED REPORT participants who visited the MIA institutions in the period under review are based on the norms of the current legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, including those of departmental by-laws. Also, the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (hereinafter referred to as SMRs or Mandela Rules) were used to assess the situation in these institutions. The recommendations of the NPM participants are specific proposals to the special RHs administration and the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to eliminate inconsistencies in living spaces, sanitary and hygienic conditions, medical care, food, conditions for sport and communication with the outside world (access to media, visits, telephone calls). The set of such proposals should be taken for control by the staff of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the adoption of the prosecution response measures provided by law. This report should 81 reflect some of the recommendations directly related to the inviolability of human dignity and the prevention of ill-treatment, punishment, as well as the prevention of torture in the MIA RK institutions. First, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2018 should develop step-by-step measures (draft program) for the shut down and re-profiling of institutions, where bringing them to the norms ensuring the rights of persons in custody, is not feasible due to the design features of the buildings used. Among the measures include a plan for the phased shut down of institutions, including those that are impractical to use due to limited number of detained persons, as well as the construction of new buildings for state institutions, which cannot be used due to poor conditions; Second, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan should take on special control issues of medical services,