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English Language Page 2. The Macedonian policy should follow the law and should ensure more diversified forms of custody and should allow for placement in individual and small-group cells and dormitories, according to prisoner’s choices, which however should allow for common activities during the day and should not result to forms of custody akin to solitary confinement. Prisoners should not be forced to accept individual or small group accommodation if they want to stay in common dormitories. 3. Programs for rehabilitation and meaningful activities for prisoners should be organized and they should be kept engaged in such activities during the day. Organizations from outside the prison system should be involved as much as possible in providing such services. Remand prisoners should be also included in organized activities. 4. Legislation and relevant rules in Macedonia should be adopted to better regulate disciplinary measures and long-term isolations, with a view of limiting the possibility for arbitrary exercise of disciplinary powers by the prison staff. The prisoners should be given the right to effectively appeal these measures to an independent authority. Limits on the amount of time that a prisoner could spend in a disciplinary cell or in isolation within one year should be introduced. 5. Medical services in the institutions of the Ministry of Justice should be integrated with the national health care system. Doctors and other medical staff should be given independent status and supervised only by medical authorities to allow the fulfillment of their duties as medical professionals. 6. All prisons in Macedonia should have an official capacity established by an act of the government. Overcrowding in those prisons in which it exists should be overcome. 7. The government of Macedonia should consider dividing the prison in Idrizovo into smaller facilities in order to improve the management, distribute the prisoners held currently there more evenly on the territory of Macedonia and create a more humane atmosphere. 8. The government of Macedonia should pay a particular attention to the incidents of excessive use of force by the security guards in the Idrizovo prison. All such incidents should be carefully investigated and processed according to the law. Official inspections in the prison should be focused on the excessive use of force by the security guards as much as possible. 9. The government of Macedonia should take urgent measures to upgrade the material conditions and the regime in the pre-trial detention units in the prisons of Bitola, Tetovo, Stip and Ohrid. The same effort should be invested into the disciplinary cells in the entire prison system of Macedonia. Sufficient space and sufficient direct access of the prisoners to natural light should be ensured in all facilities and for all forms of custody. At present holding prisoners for prolonged periods of time in the pre-trial units of the prisons of Bitola, Tetovo, Stip and Ohrid and in the disciplinary cells in these and in the other prisons amounts to inhuman and degrading treatment contrary to international standards. 10. The use of solitary confinement as a disciplinary punishment of juveniles in Macedonia should be immediately stopped as such practices constitute inhuman punishment contrary to international standards. 11. Arbitrary censorship of correspondence of the prisoners should be stopped. Correspondence should be monitored only on a case-by-case basis with a permission of an independent authority and only on the legitimate grounds provided for by the international law guaranteeing the right to privacy and due process. 12. Confidential visits and uncensored correspondence of the prisoners with their lawyers should be guaranteed at all times. Surveillance of the correspondence with the European Court of Human Rights in the Shutka prison should be stopped immediately. 13. The visit room in the Ohrid juvenile prison should be redesigned to allow for physical contacts of the juvenile prisoners with their visitors. 14. The Macedonian authorities should ensure that all prisoners, including those who are not sentenced and those undergoing disciplinary punishments, could spend at least one hour of suitable exercise in the open air daily. 15. The Macedonian authorities should ensure in law and in practice that all persons who are admitted to a prison are immediately examined by a qualified doctor. If there are injuries on their bodies they should be duly recorded together with their explanations. The doctor should immediately report such situations to the prison director and to other relevant authorities. 16. The prison in Tetovo should stop admitting women, as the present conditions there do not allow for appropriate segregation and protection. 17. The prison system in Macedonia should make a concerted effort to recruit women in the staff of all prisons. 18. Permanent surveillance with cameras in the cells of the prisoners in the Stip prison should be discontinued. 19. Premises for religious purposes should be built and arrangements with religious organizations should be made, so that the inmates are able to practice their religion, as no expression of interest does not equal lack of interest. 20. Restraint and use of anti-psychotic medication in the Shutka prison should be used only for medical purposes, on an indication by a doctor and under the supervision of a doctor. 21. The Juvenile Correctional Center should be immediately moved to its original premises in Tetovo or the present premises should be urgently upgraded and made appropriate to holding juveniles. 22. The Macedonian authorities should take urgent measures to segregate the juvenile prisoners in Shutka from the adult prisoners as required by international standards. |
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