CAT/OP/KAZ/1/Add.1 182. The internal regulations of institutions of the penal correction system were approved by Ministry of Internal Affairs Order No. 819 of 17 November 2014. These regulations determine the internal organization of institutions in the penal correction system with a view to ensuring the necessary conditions for the serving and enforcement of sentences. 183. These regulations govern: the procedure for admitting convicted prisoners to an institution; the relations between convicted prisoners and the staff of an institution; the daily schedule in an institution; the acquisition by convicted prisoners of foodstuffs and essential items, their receipt of parcels, hand-delivered packages and packets, the provision of additional services and the procedure for confiscating prohibited items or documents; convicted prisoners’ correspondence, incoming and outgoing money transfers, visits and telephone conversations; the procedure for granting convicts periods of leave outside an institution; the procedure for serving sentences under the strict regime and the conditions in which convicted prisoners are held in disciplinary units, solitary confinement, temporary isolation rooms, secure areas and cells in institutions; the specificities of imprisonment for persons sentenced to life imprisonment or the death penalty and those held in minimumsecurity institutions; and the procedure governing the conduct of convicted prisoners serving sentences under the favourable regime, who have the right to reside outside an institution. 184. The windows in the institutions have been fitted with folding shutters as part of measures to equip strategic facilities with essential security systems and to strengthen control of access to administrative territorial units. 185. The provision of water for convicted prisoners, including the use of showers, and water consumption are regulated by Government Decision No. 1118 of 2 November 1998 on standards for the consumption of electrical energy, heating, hot and cold water and other communal services in State-funded organizations. Paragraph 88 The Subcommittee recommends that medical care and assistance be guaranteed and accessible to all detained persons upon their request and that medical personnel not be under the same authority as the investigating, prosecuting and detaining ministry. Paragraph 91 The Subcommittee recommends that the detaining authority be different from the prosecuting authority and that detention conditions comply with international standards. Medical screening should be rendered more effective and be carried out by independent medical staff. 186. The possibility of transferring responsibility for the medical care of remand and convicted prisoners held in institutions of the penal correction system from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Ministry of Health was considered at meetings of the Security Council in May 2011 and of the board of the Office of the Procurator General in March 2012. 187. In accordance with an instruction of the Prime Minister of 7 May 2012, a working group was set up to consider the matter, and, in January 2013, a corresponding plan of measures for the gradual transfer of responsibility for the medical care of remand and convicted prisoners was drawn up and approved. 188. On the basis of the views of the State bodies involved, a letter was sent to the Office of the President putting forward a proposal to defer consideration of the transferral of responsibility for health care in the penitentiary system to the Ministry of Health until the resource base of prison hospitals had been strengthened and the matter of improving the social benefits of medical workers in the penal correction system had been addressed. Paragraph 99 To ensure that freedom of religion is respected in all places of deprivation of liberty, the Subcommittee recommends that prisoners be granted access to religious services, to books of religious observance and to instruction in prison in accordance with international norms, in particular rule 66 of the Nelson Mandela Rules. 22 GE.18-05420