The President does not care about the needs of prisoners

In February 2009, the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union appealed to subjects of legislative initiative with a request to develop and submit a draft law that would protect the right of prisoners to receive parcels and packages without restrictions.
The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine has already responded to the appeal, acknowledging that “...Taking into account the financial and economic situation in the state and the deterioration of conditions for serving sentences by convicts and the detention of persons taken into custody against this background, the Ministry of Justice is initiating the issue of developing a draft law regarding increasing the number of parcels and transfers for convicts and prisoners.”
20 March, the UHRU received a letter from the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine. The Secretariat informed the Executive Director of the Union, Volodymyr Yavorsky, that it had forwarded the appeal to the State Department for the Execution of Sentences. Now the representatives of the Department must say whether they agree with the need and advisability of making such changes to the legislation.
The President did not express his own vision regarding whether such changes are needed and whether there is a need at all to introduce a draft law.
So it remains to wait for the response of the State Department for the Execution of Sentences and hope that the fate of the prisoners is not a matter of indifference to them.