CONSOLIDATED REPORT revealed that no action had been taken. Members of the NPM team drew a special message to the prosecutor’s office of Almaty oblast. In addition, in the report of the monitoring visit of “Establishment EC-166/5” there were complaints from 5 convicts who voiced that they were repeatedly subjected to torture, psychological violence and pressure, threats to personal security from the administration of the institution and wrongful acts by the voluntary administration assistant. In “Establishment ZK169/5” of the Department of the penitentiary system in Kyzylorda oblast, the NPM team received complaints on personal safety, namely, assault, threats, and humiliation of human dignity from 18 convicted with regard to the “voluntarily convict organization”, who also commit unlawful acts in relation to the conditions of detention provided for and take advantage of the privileges granted to them. According to Part 2 of Article 126 of Correctional 45 Code RoK the main tasks of the voluntary convict organizations are: 1) to create a positive moral and psychological climate in the institution; 2) to develop positive social relations among convicts; 3) to maintain socially useful initiative of convicts; 4) to assist convicts in spiritual, professional and physical development; 5) to assist in the organization of work, life and leisure of convicts. A large number of complaints from convicts concerned the actions of the convicts from Voluntary Administration Assistants, Service of Leisure and Selfeducation of the Colony, Hygiene and Sanitation Service on the fact that they use their privileged position for personal purposes. After some convicts go shopping in the store or receive the parcels, food, cigarettes and other things, these items are extorted. The convicts who are dissatisfied with such actions face the risk of receiving a notification or violation. As they themselves admit, they have the right to

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