For the first time, probably in my memory, the Ministry of Justice adopted new internal regulations (for the Federal Penitentiary Service), taking into account the proposals and wishes of the human rights community.
Now, in terms of improving life in institutions of the penitentiary system, it will be possible for pregnant women, women with young children, and people with disabilities (groups 1 and 2) to take a shower every day. It becomes possible to install shower cabins in cells!
The list of items permitted for storage and transfer includes dietary supplements and ELECTRONIC BOOKS. Speaking of books, I remember when this issue was discussed, it was not only about being able to read works on devices, but also to study cases. That is, in this way, simplify the life of suspects and accused in terms of optimizing personal space. People have to store a large amount of materials on their criminal case, study them separately (since they often don’t give everything to the camera at once), and this will be the opportunity to store and study everything on one small electronic device. Comfortable!
Blind and visually impaired people are now allowed, if possible, to have technical means to listen to audiobooks!
Persons in custody will be able to exercise using stationary sports equipment, as well as in places specially equipped for this. The daily routine of juvenile suspects and accused persons requires the allocation of at least one hour for exercise.
It will be possible to receive medical services from private medical organizations, send and receive letters electronically. Previously, this was also not regulated by temporary temporary detention centers, which in a number of places of forced detention created problems when the administration of the colony or pre-trial detention center, citing the absence of such a norm, refused to provide the listed services
The new edition of the temporary residence permit also provides for the possibility of installing screens in premises for conducting searches and the mandatory participation of medical workers during searches of certain categories of patients and people with disabilities.
The order provides for the possibility of introducing information terminals in colonies and pre-trial detention centers in order to provide access to legal and reference information.
The information terminal can also be used to submit applications, complaints, make an appointment with a medical organization (UIS), order items, books, and products in the store. That is, you will not need to search, buy, transfer, wasting time, the current version of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Criminal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, etc. An appeal through such a terminal will quickly reach one or another government agency, the prosecutor’s office, without getting lost somewhere along the way.
Correction centers are now allowed to use phones and laptops!
Not all of our proposals have been implemented, but a number of changes that have come into force can be called revolutionary. I am sure that work to improve the temporary residence permit will continue and the Ministry of Justice will continue to listen to civil society institutions. I thank my colleagues who took part in the discussion of proposals for new PVRs, representatives of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Justice, the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, the Public Monitoring Committee of the city of Moscow and, of course, the Minister of Justice Konstantin Anatolyevich Chuychenko!
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