20 166/10, ЕC-166/25, ZD158/4, UKA-168/2- disabled convicts did not even know that they have the right to an individual rehabilitation program. It should be noted that the accessibility of disabled people in the premises is complicated. One of the big problems for convicts is obtaining the status of disabled. The absence of narrow specialists and appropriate medical equipment makes it difficult for them to pass medical commissions. When monitoring the establishment UKA-161/2, the NPM team drew the attention of the institution's administration to the prisoner Sh., who was diagnosed with a fracture of the cervical vertebra, but he was not given a disability. In UKA-161/4 the convict G. was not declared disabled though he had eye disorders (vision impairment). According to article 10, paragraph 11 (3) of the PEC of the RK, convicted persons with disabilities such as speech defects, either of hearing or sight, have the CONSOLIDATED REPORT right to use the services of specialists who have skills in tactile-sign language or Braille alphabet. The lack of ramps, unequipped bathrooms and bath rooms for the needs of the disabled are only visible problems. The Committee of the Penitentiary System, the Department of Penal Enforcement Facilities and the local institutions need to resolve as soon as possible the issue of equipping an accessible environment for persons with disabilities in correctional facilities. In almost all regions, it is noted that the penitentiary institutions suffer from a flourishing vicious practice of empowering certain prisoners with the powers to exercise control over the bulk of the convicts in the form of volunteer assistants to the administration. And although such organizations are not directly named in Article 126 of the PEC, it contains the wording that “convicts' organizations are established to work under the supervision of the administration of the

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