MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE 50 – individuals are involved in procedural and other actions during the rest hours; – detainees are unreasonably refused their parcels. At the request of MIA Internal Troops Command the NPM Department examined the current situation with convoying of persons taken into pre-trial custody and convicts by railroad transport. It was established that the Internal Troops of MIA are the only public authority performing the task of convoying of prisoners moved by rail. For this purpose the Internal Troops rent from the Ukrainian Railroads 29 special ST rail carriages that service 143 convoying routes. More than 90 % of such carriages have been in use for more than 28 years of their life cycle and relevantly depreciated. MIA Main Department of Internal Troops has, since 2005, annually requested the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine to take necessary action to renew the fleet of special carriages by allocating budgetary funds for acquisition of modern railcars meeting relevant international rules and standards. However, the matter has so far not been positively resolved. An inspection of the rail carriages showed that their condition is really inappropriate. They have no ventilation, which during the heat season creates intolerable conditions both for prisoners and their convoys. During the cold season the carriages are cold inside because of the obsolete solid fuel heating systems.