Tbilisi. The Public Defender of Georgia has addressed Minister of Corrections and Probation with a recommendation on ensuring the prisoners’ right to use stores in penitentiary institutions.

''The Public Defender’s Department of Prevention and Monitoring studied the supply issue of stores in penitentiary institutions and evaluated both quantity of items and resupplying frequency as insufficient. Accordingly, prisoners are not able to purchase necessary products. The Public Defender considers that the fact of having prison stores managed by private companies does not exempt the Ministry of Corrections and Probation of its commitments, according to which prisoners should be held in decent conditions and should have access to items of basic necessity and food products''...

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