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or a carpenter. Training lasts for 6.5 months. Convicted prisoners who successfully
complete trade school receive a standard State document indicating their grade. Depending
on the length of their sentence, convicted prisoners can manage to learn two or three trades.
In the 2015/16 academic year, 50 students received trade school diplomas. There are 28
students enrolled in the current academic year.
283. Guardianship councils and parental committees made up of convicted prisoners’
parents and other close relatives have been set up to improve the effectiveness of the
educational initiatives introduced for their benefit and to assist the administration of the
young offenders’ institution.
284. In addition, the staff of territorial judicial bodies and lawyers’ and notaries’ offices
provide young offenders with qualified legal assistance.
285. Many municipal organizations, educational institutions, voluntary associations,
religious denominations and NGOs work with juvenile convicted prisoners.
286. The Almaty municipal administration (akimat) also plays an active role. It works
with the department for physical education and sport to organize regular sporting events,
concerts and screenings of films, comedy programmes and so forth. In 2016, 14 such events
were organized and took place.
287. These various efforts are all, first and foremost, part of the educational process and
are aimed at promoting law-abiding behaviour among juvenile convicted prisoners,
providing incentives for them to reform and encouraging their rapid reintegration into
society.
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The Subcommittee recommends that consent for hospitalization be requested
separately from consent for treatment and that an independent commission be
established to deal with complaints. A special register for the use of restraint measures
should be introduced, and should include all necessary data, for example, who
ordered the restraints, for what reason, for how long and the supervision provided,
and the approach to treatment should be individualized. The medical centre for
mental health in Astana should also facilitate privacy and decorations in patients’
rooms.
288. Under article 127 (2) of the Code on Public Health and the Health-Care System, the
use of physical restraint or isolation in the case of a person who has been forcibly
hospitalized and is held in a psychiatric inpatient facility is permissible only in such cases
and for such periods as are considered necessary if a psychiatrist is of the opinion that
actions on the part of the hospitalized patient that present a danger to himself or herself or
to other persons cannot be prevented by other means. The use of such methods is subject to
ongoing monitoring by medical staff. The forms of physical restraint or isolation used and
the length of their use are logged in a medical register, and the person’s legal representative
is notified of their use.
289.
The mechanical restraints used are soft restraints.
290. We consider it inappropriate to separate the forms for requesting consent for
hospitalization and for requesting consent for treatment, as the conditions of detention and
treatment are explained to a person as part of the hospitalization process. Treatment is
administered in accordance with the diagnosis and treatment protocols are approved by the
Ministry of Health.
291. With regard to the creation of an independent commission to examine complaints,
we note that a service has been set up in each organization under the authority of the main
director to support patients and conduct internal audits. Since 2012, the national centre for
mental-health research under the Ministry of Health has had a public mental-health council,
whose members include officials from psychiatric and educational organizations and NGO
representatives (public unions, foundations, associations, the media, legal organizations and
so forth).
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