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Undue Punishment: Abuses against Prisoners in Georgia

Undue Punishment

Abuses against Prisoners in Georgia

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Summary

Background

The Georgian Prison System

Organized Crime in Georgia

Organized Crime in the Georgian Penitentiary System

Government Efforts to Combat Organized Crime

Methodology

Georgia’s International Obligations

Conditions in Prisons and the Treatment of Prisoners

Overcrowding in Penitentiary Facilities

Government explanations for overcrowding

Conditions of overcrowding

Physical Conditions of Penitentiary Facilities

Conditions in Tbilisi Prison No. 5

Conditions in Tbilisi Prison No. 7

Conditions in new prisons

Conditions in quarantine and punishment cells

Hygiene

Food and Nutrition

Medical Care for Detainees

Republican Prison Hospital

Prison medical wards

Mental health and psychiatric care

Access to Exercise

Lack of Access to Family Visits and Correspondence

Access to Lawyers

Access to Information

Lack of Purposeful Activities

Complaint Mechanisms

Monitoring of Prisons

Government Use of Force in Detention Facilities

The March 27 Disturbance in Prison No. 5

Detention of the alleged riot plotters and disturbance in the Republican Prison Hospital

The disturbance travels to Prisons No. 5 and No. 1

The special operation to quell the disturbance

Use of force during the special operation

The issue of excessive use of force

Government explanation for the use of force

Treatment of the wounded

Discrepancies in the number of killed and wounded

Planning the operation

Investigation into the March 27 incident in Tbilisi Prison No. 5

Other Incidents Involving the Use of Force in the Penitentiary System

Use of force against detainees in Kutaisi, Batumi, and Rustavi

Use of force against detainees in Tbilisi Prison No. 7

Impunity for Abuses Perpetrated by Prison Staff and Special Forces

Recommendations

To the Government of Georgia

To the General Prosecutor’s Office

To the Ministry of Justice

To the Ministry of Justice and the Penitentiary Department

To the Ministry of Labor, Health, and Social Affairs and the Penitentiary Department

To the European Union

To the Council of Europe

To the United Nations

To the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

To the United States Government

To International Financial Institutions

Acknowledgements

September 2006 Volume 18, No. 8(D)

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