The Round Table on Prisoners Rights Organized in Rustavi Jail 6

The Round Table on Prisoners Rights Organized in Rustavi Jail 6

Tbilisi.14.07.05. Media-News. The  current reconstruction within the framework of  the European Union Tacis Project is coming to an end at Rustavi Jail #6 with the organisation and realisation of a roundtable on the topic of “Prison-Prisoner-Society.”

The roundtable was organised within the framework of the “Consciousness Raising of the Rights of Prisoners and the Penitentiary System” programme supported by the European Commission and the UN Development Fund and realised by the organisation “Article 42 of the Constitution.”
 
Eka Tkeshelashvili, the Deputy Minister of Justice, Olavi Israel, the representative of the UN Development programme in Georgia, Ketevan Khutsishvili, the representative of European Commission project, members of  “Article 42 of the Constitution” and other NGO representatives participated in this meeting. 

Tkeshelashvili commented during the roundtable that prisons will be equipped not only by international standards but also with a new management model together with pay raises for staff, improvements to the daily meals for inmates and increased internal protection measures. The jail currently houses 800 men.

Tkeshelashvili further reported that the employees of this jail will be chosen by the rule of competition and then they will pass a special training With a start date for the improvements set at October 2005.

The participants at the roundtable spoke about prisoners’ rights and the problems for their re-integration into society and the system of international standards of the penitentiary system among other topics.