Visit to the State Institution “Vinnytsia Penitentiary Institution (No. 1)”
Inadequate detention conditions for convicts and prisoners, particularly at the Vinnytsia Penitentiary Institution (No. 1), are prompting applications to the ECHR, which leads to additional state expenditure on compensation payments.
Report on the results of the monitoring visit to the State Institution “Sofiivska Correctional Colony (No. 45)” and the Sofiivska Multidisciplinary Hospital No. 45 of the branch of the State Institution “Health Care Center of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine” in the Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions
The administration of SCC-45 and inmates acting as administrative assistants engaged in impolite communication with the monitors, psychological pressure, threats, provocative actions, and shoving. Numerous violations of inmates’ rights were identified.
Monitoring visit to the state institution "Synelnykove Penal Colony (No. 94)"
Monitors were denied access to one of the medical unit's rooms. Medical assistance provided to prisoners is not being delivered in full.
Monitoring visit to the State Institution 'Solonyanska Correctional Colony (No. 21)'
According to the prisoners, parole is not utilised in the institution. In the disciplinary isolation ward (DIZO), beds are lifted and locked during the day. In the medical unit, the monitors discovered medications with expired shelf lives.
Monitoring visit to the State Institution “Kryvyi Rih Correctional Colony (No. 80)”
A tense atmosphere is palpable in the institution. Convicts are afraid to complain about the actions and inaction of the administration. According to the administration, approximately 10% of the convicts are malicious violators of the detention regime.
Monitoring visit to the State Institution ‘Kryvyi Rih Penal Institution (No. 3)’
Prisoners held in the tuberculosis ward are kept in inadequate conditions. Some of them are forced to sleep on the floor. The walls in the cells are damaged by fungus, and the sanitary facilities are dilapidated.
Monitoring visit to the State Institution “Shepetivka Correctional Colony (No. 98)”
There is no bathhouse on the hospital premises within the colony. The beds in the wards are double-tiered and placed close together. The wards themselves are in a dilapidated state, and the sanitary facilities are in need of a major overhaul.
Monitoring visit to the State Institution “Stryzhavka Correctional Colony (No. 81)”
A multidisciplinary hospital with a modern laboratory is located on the colony's premises. In the wards of the hospital’s inpatient departments, beds are placed close together; the requirements regarding the area per convicted person have not been met.
Monitoring visit to the State Institution ‘Vinnytsia Institution for the Execution of Punishments (No. 1)’
Medical assistance is not provided to prisoners in full. In some wards of the infectious isolation unit, there is no possibility to open a window for ventilation; window frames are broken, and the bathrooms are in need of repair.
Monitoring visit to the State Institution “Ladyzhyn Correctional Colony (No. 39)”
The medical unit’s staffing table does not provide for a psychiatrist position, and the infirmary lacks an isolation ward for individuals with mental disorders for convicts who pose a danger to others.
“A person resembling the deputy head of the penal colony strikes a person resembling a convict” – an unscheduled monitoring visit to “Polytska Penal Colony (No. 76)”
On 18 July, a video was released online in which a person in uniform, resembling Oleksandr Muzyka, the deputy head of Polytska Penal Colony No. 76, strikes a person who appears to be a convict. By 19 July, a monitoring group had arrived at the colony.