to increase attention to social adaptation and rehabilitation of persons released from serving their sentence. From this standpoint, carrying out complex programs in rehabilitation and social adaptation of persons released from penitentiary institutions, improvement of social services with benefiting from the capacities of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population could give successful results. Despite keeping under the focus of attention the matter of ensuring the employment of persons released from the places of deprivation of liberty in the working places upon the quotas being included into the line of citizens who are in special need of social protection and facing difficulties in employment, there are still problems in practice. Considering certain concessions in the legislation for private enterprises, entrepreneurs providing the persons from this category with work is purposeful. The results of monitoring in the psychiatric institutions are summarized as following upon the national legislation, international standards, the UN Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care, European Minimum Standards on Detention conditions and treatment of Mentally Ill Persons, as well as the recommendations of UN Sub-Committee on Prevention of Torture, European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT). Overcrowding in institutions of this category and weakness of treatment–rehabilitation programs create tension in relations regarding detention conditions and treatment and there is a need in carrying out measures for their elimination, increasing the food and medications supply. It was also observed that the allocations from the healthcare expenses of the Ministry of Health that spent on psychiatric health services are less in comparison with the others and this is important to increase it as well as the expenses for food and medication expenses per patient is crucially important. This is also necessary to ensure allocations for psychiatric institutions budgets not jointly but separately from the expenses allocated for raion healthcare departments or city/raion central hospitals. Speeding up reforms in these directions is purposeful. Failure in following sanitarian norms in the institutions was observed as well. From this standpoint this is very important to review exiting rules for such kind of institutions and increase the control over their implementation basing on the international standards. Despite the realized reforms there is still lack of specialized cadres (therapist-psychiatrist, nurses) in the psychiatric institutions, as well as a need in medical personnel of other specializations. Considering the field specificity of middle and junior medical personnel working there, involving 68