JUSTICE FOR ALL Department under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania for 2022-2030, (2022) (Kalėjimų departamento prie Lietuvos Respublikos teisingumo ministerijos direktoriaus įsakymas „Dėl pusiaukelės namų plėtros 2022-2024 m. priemonių plano patvirtinimo), http://www.kaldep.lt/ lt/kalejimu-departamentas/teisine-informacija/teises-aktai/kiti-teises-aktai.html. 529 Uscila R.,The practice of halfway houses for convicts in Lithuania (Nuteistųjų pusiaukelės namų taikymo praktika Lietuvoje) (2022), https://repository.mruni.eu/ bitstream/handle/007/18563/XVIII%20 Vilnius%202022_compressed-88-92. pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 530 The information is based on an interview with representatives of the Lithuanian Prison Service conducted on 14 March 2023. 531 148 Order No. A1-939/1R-324 of the Minister of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania and the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania On Approval of the Description of the Procedure for the Social Integration of Persons Released from the Places of Serving the Penalty of Imprisonment (2020) (Dėl iš laisvės atėmimo bausmės atlikimo vietų paleidžiamų asmenų socialinės integracijos tvarkos aprašo patvirtinimo), https://e-seimas.lrs. lt/portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/f0de45540959 11ebbedbd456d2fb030d/asr 532 The Law on Execution of Penal Sanctions in force at that time led to the establishment of a commission (two judges and two psychiatrists) which decided on the most appropriate institution for each offender (Kobal and Žagar 1994, 266–267). 533 Not much information is available, therefore we do not have names of all the heads. 534 According to Kobal and Žagar (1994, 266) there was an opposition to these ideas and plans, and they point out three groups that had to be persuaded not to prevent the developments: psychiatrists (and other staff) of the University Psychiatric Hospital, staff of the DFSP “who had to change their basic attitudes and many deeply-ingrained habits”, and the authorities (medical as well as legal). 535 In his article Svoboda in nesvoboda na oddelku za forenzično in socialno psihiatrijo from 1976 Kondža wrote that this unit had room for 51 patients at the beginning. Later on, the number of patients was reduced to around 15 (Kondža and Kobal 2014). 536 Patients admitted to DFSP were all male, due to the fact that female forensic patients were only few and it was not possible to create a mixed ward; female forensic patients were admitted to the neighbouring mixed ward or other wards of the hospital or were in an out-patient care (Kobal and Žagar 1994, 267). 537 In case of family care – especially for individuals with the most severe disabilities– the DFSP staff provided support in the sense of medical and social aid (Kobal and Žagar 1994, 269). According to dr. Žagar (2023) their medical technical staff visited these patients once a month and gave them therapy (medicine) prescribed by the psychiatrist. They were supervising that patient’s life, how he is doing, how the family accepts him, whether there are any conflicts etc. These patients were not involved in any group therapy after they left the hospital. According to Kondža and Kobal (2014) this program of family care was established in 1969. 538 Kobal and Žagar (1994), at 266. 539 In an interview Dr. Žagar (2023) said they also had 1/3 psychologist, 1/3 music therapist, 1/3 occupational therapist, 1/5 or maybe even 1/8 of a recreational therapist. 540 Kobal and Žagar (1994), at 268-269. 541 Kondža and Kobal (2014). 542 “At the time, I was also doing education in group analytic psychotherapy and we also practised this for them, 3 times a week. We sat down together and sat for an hour and a half. It is important that the therapist encourages the positive that is in the person. It is in everyone, even in these patients. And that we respected them. You know, this respect, as I looked around abroad... what we were supposed to observe abroad, we were better than them. They could come here to learn from us. Abroad, the emphasis was on guarding, protection. But this stank to us, security, because we are not policemen. We are doctors.” (Žagar 2023). 543 Kobal and Žagar (1994), at 268-269. 544 Kondža and Kobal (2014). 545 Kobal and Žagar (1994), at 268-269. 546 However, there were two tragic events: in one case, »a paranoid patient on the visit at home injured his wife« and then, thinking that he had killed her, he committed suicide; in another case, a patient killed his ex-wife while he went for a walk in the town alone (Kobal and Žagar 1994, 269). However, that obviously happened some time before 1985, as Dr. Žagar in his interview (on 11.4.2023) reassured that during more than ten years when he was working there no such incidents occurred. 547 Kobal and Žagar (1994), at 269-271. 548 Kondža and Kobal (2014).