Legal awareness – for female convicts

Within the framework of the project “Ensuring equal access for convicts and those released to justice – through the activity of the regional centre for legal aid” with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation, the charitable organisation “Chernihiv Women’s Human Rights Centre” has launched a month of legal awareness for female convicts in the Chernihiv Penal Colony No. 44.
6 November 2008, Mr. A.L. Kostyukov – Assistant Prosecutor of the Chernihiv region – was invited to the institution. He spoke to the convicts, providing information on the procedure for criminal prosecution for malicious disobedience to the requirements of the administration and for actions that disorganise the work of correctional institutions.
Lawyers from the charitable organisation answered questions from the convicts, which concerned the rights of convicts to receive information about their rights and obligations while serving their sentence; the procedure for submitting proposals, statements, and complaints to the Prosecutor’s Office and other state authorities; and the procedure for social security, the granting and receipt of pensions while fulfilling/serving a sentence.
V. Badyra – Director of the charitable organisation “Chernihiv Women’s Human Rights Centre”