Donetsk Memorial • Kharkiv Human Rights Group
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Report on the Results of a Monitoring Visit to State Institution ‘Ivano-Frankivsk Penal Institution No. 12’

Monitors received a complaint regarding the failure to provide medical assistance and the lack of adequate treatment. The medical unit’s wards require repairs.

Report on the results of a monitoring visit to the State Institution ‘Transcarpathian Penal Institution (No. 9)’

Shortages of personnel and equipment in the institution’s medical unit result in a violation of the prisoners’ right to medical care.

Monitoring visit to Lviv Multidisciplinary Hospital No. 19 of the State Institution “Health Care Center of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine”

The institution provides neither adequate treatment nor proper conditions of detention.

Report on the results of a monitoring visit to the State Institution ‘Lviv Penitentiary Facility (No. 19)’

In the outpatient department, prisoners suffering from active tuberculosis are held in inadequate conditions.

Report on the results of a monitoring visit to the State Institution ‘Lutsk Pre-trial Detention Centre’

The medical unit lacks a shower room; the wards are unsanitary; and the toilets and sewage system are severely worn and require urgent repair.

Report on the results of a monitoring visit to the State Institution ‘Manevychi Penal Colony (No. 42)’

The right of convicted persons to healthcare, to the extent established by legislation, is being violated within the institution and its medical unit.

Monitoring visit to the State Institution ‘Kamianske Correctional Colony No. 34’

In the living quarters for convicts who do not work in the production facility, there are no household appliances or stools. Sitting on beds is not allowed, only on bedside tables. By using such artificial restrictions, the institution’s administration attempts to encourage women to work.

Monitoring visit to the State Institution “Dnipro Institution for the Execution of Sentences No. 4”

The head of the medical unit refused to provide any information regarding the institution’s activities. Convicts complained about the lack of medical treatment, bed linen, cutlery, etc. The cells in the tuberculosis block are overcrowded and in a dire, dilapidated state.

Monitoring visit to the State Institution “Bilenkivska Correctional Colony No. 99”

Medical assistance for convicts is not being provided in full. The impression was that the convicts were intimidated and did not dare to report human rights violations.

Monitoring visit to State Institution 'Kazankivska Correctional Colony No. 93'

The DIZO (Disciplinary Isolation Ward) and PKT (Chamber-type Premises) are located in damp basement facilities. Next to each cell hang the prisoners' spoons, attached to the wall, which the administration forbids them from keeping in the cell.

Monitoring visit to State Institution “Petrivska Correctional Colony No. 49”

In the medical unit of the institution, monitors recorded expired medicines. Medical assistance is not provided in full, particularly due to the absence of an infectious disease specialist and a shortage of medication.

Monitoring visit to the State Institution “Kropyvnytskyi Pre-trial Detention Centre”

The monitors recorded instances of inadequate treatment of persons with mental disorders. The medical unit lacks an infectious disease isolation ward and a shower room.