| Abstract [eng] |
Regime in Places of Detention and Its Basic Requirements Since the Soviet era, the concept of correction, according to which the regime in penitentiaries is considered to be as a mean of correction, still remains in the Lithuanian system of sentence enforcement. This concept in the penitentiaries encourages such order, where a person is considered to be an object of correction; the person is constantly controlled, supervised, and forced to obey a certain compulsory order. In other words, such regime in penitentiaries and its means are aimed not to resocialize the inmate, but to keep him/her isolated and force obeying the compulsory order. The analysis of the concept of regime and its key requirements emphasizes the significance of international standards, and this Master’s thesis aims to assess the embedded regulation in Lithuania with respect to the concept of regime and its key requirements. The Master’s thesis emphasizes personal isolation and constant supervision, when a person loses various social skills, harmfulness; discusses a rare application of the opportunity to open the imprisonment, while reducing the harm of isolation, in Lithuania. Also, it analyses a requirement, which appeared due to the dominant concept of correction, to fulfil the duties accurately and coherently, which determines the fact that in other case, even a slightest derogation from certain standards of conduct will result in penalties. Considering provisions of the European Committee against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading behaviour or punishment, it analyses an unexploited issue of creating different holding conditions for inmates in open-type institutions, emphasizing crowded penitentiaries. Also, this thesis discusses significant amendments of legal acts on imprisonment with effect from April 1, 2016 (for example, withdrawal of penalties – holding in punishment, disciplinary ward, more meetings for inmates), analyses statistics of the last year and compares it with the last year’s data. |
