penalties are not imposed on these prisoners during their time in de-escalation rooms; • To ensure that the Inspectorate General, within the systematic monitoring framework, examines the practice of placement in de-escalation rooms for preventing placement of prisoners in de-escalation rooms for punitive reasons (as an alternative to placement in solitary confinement cells as a disciplinary penalty); • To ensure drafting amendment to the Imprisonment Code under which prisoners imposed with a disciplinary penalty will not be restricted to use video visits; to introduce the draft amendment to the Government for its imitation before the Parliament; • To ensure drafting amendment to the Imprisonment Code to the effect of abolishing administrative (disciplinary) detention as a form of punishment; in case this form of punishment is maintained, to ensure that its maximum duration is limited to 15 days; to introduce the draft amendment to the Government for its imitation before the Parliament. • To ensure increased use of incentives in all establishments of the Penitentiary Department; • To take all necessary measures to ensure increased use of incentives for participation in rehabilitation activities; • To ensure that the Inspectorate General, within the systematic monitoring framework, regularly inspects penitentiary establishment for preventing arbitrary and illegal imposition of disciplinary penalties, disproportionate use of penalties as well as full ban on the contact with the outside world; • To ensure drafting an amendment to the Imprisonment Code to the effect of deleting the restriction of the right to telephone conversations, the right to receive and send private correspondence, as well as forfeiture of short visit privileges as a disciplinary penalty; to introduce the draft amendment to the Government for its imitation before the Parliament; • To ensure drafting an amendment to the Imprisonment Code under which a prisoner placed in a solitary confinement cell is not restricted in short and long visits, telephone conversations, purchasing food; to introduce the draft amendment to the Government for its imitation before the Parliament; • To ensure drafting an amendment to the Imprisonment Code under which the possession of a television/radio is a prisoner’s right and the use of this right does not depend on the consent of the establishment’s director; to introduce the draft amendment to the Government for its introduction before the Parliament; and 106 HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN CLOSED INSTITUTIONS

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