Book Description

This analysis is devoted to the progress in implementation of the recommendations made by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereinafter – CPT, Committee). It concerns all the recommendations made by the Committee since its first visit to Ukraine in 1998. During this time, the Committee has published 15 reports pertaining to Ukraine. Of these, 12 reports that were fully or partially devoted to the Ukrainian penitentiary system were analysed. Three remaining reports were ignored since they were dealing exclusively with other areas (psychiatric institutions, border guard facilities, etc.). The intention was to analyse the implementation progress of only those recommendations, the implementation of which could be measured. Besides, only recommendations of systemic nature were taken for analysis. Therefore, the analysis does not consider the implementation of other recommendations with regard to: individual penitentiary institutions and their repair state; individual or collective cases of torture/degrading treatment in certain institutions; provision of material resources, food, medicines, etc .; staffing level of individual institutions. Thus, the focus was on recommendations with regard to which it was possible to state on their implementation, non-implementation or partial implementation. An important part of these recommendations require legislative changes and/or additional funding. In some cases, recommendations for individual institutions were taken into account when addressing systemic issues. The purpose of the analysis was to conduct a kind of "inventory" of the Committee's outstanding recommendations. The idea was to summarize a large number of standards scattered in the various reports. To facilitate finding the referenced reports containing relevant recommendations the year of the Committee's visit and the paragraph of the relevant report are indicated in parentheses.