54 General provisions The pre-trial detention center is a special correctional institution designed to detain: suspected and accused of committing a crime, who receive detention as a preventive measure. The pre-trial detention centers detain those: 1) suspects and accused, criminal cases in respect of which are taken to production by the bodies of inquest and investigation; 2) suspects and accused, criminal cases in respect of which are accepted for proceedings by the courts (accused); 3) convicted in criminal cases in respect of which the convictions have not entered into force; 4) convicted in other criminal cases in respect of which arrest was used as a preventive measure; 5) convicted in criminal cases, subject to be transferred to correctional institution, executing criminal penalties in the form of imprisonment, or to compulsory treatment in the prescribed manner; CONSOLIDATED REPORT 6) convicted who have been left in pretrial detention centers or transferred to them from the institutions executing penalties in connection with the conduct of investigative actions in cases of crimes committed by other persons, or in connection with the consideration of such cases in courts. In their visits to the pretrial detention facilities, NPM members were guided by the following regulatory acts governing the legal relations in this area: 1. The Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 2. The Law of RoK dated June 29, 1998 No.247-1 “On the accession of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment”. 3. The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated June 26, 2008 No.48-IV “On ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against