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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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