Tbilisi. "Open Society - Georgia" Foundation and the "International Center for Prison Studies" have presented a study on November 4. The "Study on the practice of torture and inhuman treatment in the penitentiary system of Georgia" covers the period of 2003-2012. "The report includes brand new empirical data from interviews with inmates and former inmates ... throughout the study, face-to-face interviews were conducted with 1200 convicted persons, 600 of which are former inmates. Study results answer the following principal questions: when did inhuman and degrading treatment start, how frequent and systemic was it; which key factors were triggering torture; what was the purpose of photo-video documenting of torture; what physical or psychological methods of torture were used most often; did torture occur in specific prisons or across the country; was it pursued by a concrete group of one prison administration or it was an official policy. The report includes concrete recommendations for eradicating similar practices in the future and the prison administration issues in general", says the Foundation's web page.

Source: osgf.ge