CONSOLIDATED REPORT Thus, as noted by NPM members, the situation of persons transferred to pretrial detention center from institutions of medium security level worsens. They do not have the right for telephone conversations or the right for long visits. Moreover, in their opinion, a legal conflict arises: the authorized body cancels the decision of the court regarding the type of institution worsening the rights of convicts, and the term of the convicted person staying in the mixed security institution in local areas called “special valleys” is not regulated. A convict may stay in these institutions for years, which is contradicts: Rule 37 of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, which insistently requires to regulate by the laws or regulations of the competent administrative authority: a) behavior that constitutes a disciplinary offense; 71 b) type and duration of the penalties that may be imposed on prisoners; c) authority having the right to impose such penalties; d) any measures of forced separation of detainees from the general inmates, such as solitary confinement, isolation, segregation, placement in a punishment cell or restriction of conditions of detention, whether as a disciplinary measure or to enforce order and safety, including the introduction of principles and procedures regulating the use and revision of the procedure for the petition and abolition of any measures of compulsory isolation. Rule 58 1. Prisoners should be allowed to communicate with their families or friends with regular intervals and under proper supervision: a) through written correspondence and using telecommunication, electronic, digital and other means if there is such an opportunity; and

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