Improving the situation of convicts

The Supreme Council supported law-in-draft aimed at improving the situation of convicts in places of deprivation of liberty in the first reading. It is proposed in particular to give the opportunity to those who are single parents to meet with their children in orphanages and boarding schools. The law-in-draft also aims to implement the right to education.

Presenting this law-in-draft at the plenary session, Vice Speaker of the Parliament, Chairman of the Committee on Legislation, Protection of the Rights and Freedoms of Citizens Galina Antyufeeva noted that the initiative was prepared by a group of deputies back in 2019. Consideration of the law-in-draft was postponed due to the objection of the State Service for the Execution of Sentences. The President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic held yesterday a meeting on the results of the inspection of the institutions for the execution of sentences, during which the convicts were able to voice their problems, requests and suggestions. The head of the relevant parliamentary committee, the ministers of justice and internal affairs, the head of the State Penitentiary Service, the PMR Prosecutor and the Chairman of the Supreme Court were invited to the meeting. The President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Vadim Krasnoselsky instructed to consider the legislative initiative of deputies to improve the situation of convicts in places of deprivation of liberty, Galina Antyufeeva noted. The draft law on amendments and additions to the Criminal Executive Code was adopted in the first reading already today.

In addition, the bill proposes to give the right to convicts to spend twice as much money that their relatives give them for food and essential goods. As noted on the official website of the President of the PMR, now the monthly limit is 300 rubles.

Adopted in the first reading the law-in-draft will be finalized for the second reading, taking into consideration the comments made by the deputies of the Supreme Council and other subjects of the right to legislative initiative.