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MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE:
Stari Babany penitentiary
(No. 92)
Kolomyia penitentiary (No.
41)
Mena penitentiary (No. 91)
Exercise yards for prisoners held in punishments units (DIZO / PKT) are in terms of their
design similar to exercise yards in remand prisons, with the floor area of about 12 sq. m
and barring instead of ceilings. Their rough wall coating was not fully removed, they need
rain canopies and proper equipment for physical exercise.
The conditions of detention for prisoners sentenced to arrest are not properly provided;
such prisoners are held separately from others in punishment units.
In Kolomyia penitentiary (No. 41) at the time of the visit such cell had 18 inmates, its walls
were covered with yellow spots and mold, proper cleaning was not taking place, the air
was stuffy and stale. Solid beds looked unsafe and hardly adequate for proper sleep.
As of January 1, 2014 penitentiary institutions had 1,888 convicts with life sentences. At
some institutions holding this category of prisoners they sleep in one- or two-tier bunks in
narrow, poorly lit and hardly ever aired cells.
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