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Lithuania

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Legal instruments & key provisions

Legal instrument Key provision
Code on execution of sentences (Lietuvos Respublikos Bausmių vykdymo kodeksas)Convicts who do not comply with the requirements of prison officials, organise pickets, rallies, demonstrations and other group events without the permission of the prison institution and participate in them, consume alcoholic beverages or their substitutes, narcotic, psychotropic or other psychedelic substances or toxic means, as well also uses medication without a doctor's permission, incites other convicts and detainees to refuse to comply with the demands of prison officials, demands any service from other convicts or detainees, uses physical or mental violence against other persons, as well as convicts who, before the violation, have been punished three times within administrative and/or disciplinary penalties of one year, a disciplinary penalty may be imposed - their isolation for up to thirty days, and for juvenile convicts - up to five days.
Order Regarding the implementation of the Code on Enforcement of Punishment, the Law on Probation and the Law on the Execution of ArrestConvicts assigned to the disciplinary group are kept locked in residential premises (cells). In contrast, those sentenced to arrest and convicts assigned to the ordinary group are kept locked in residential premises (cells) if it is necessary to ensure their separate detention or they, due to their personal characteristics, may have a negative influence on other convicts, pose a danger to other persons health or life or if it is necessary for the purpose of ensuring the security of the institution of deprivation of liberty.

NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS

Year Recommendation Report
2019To the Director of the Prison Department: to implement measures to ensure that convicted detainees serving their sentences in isolated detention are provided with preventive and interventional meetings with the institutions’ psychologists, involve them in joint activities with convicted detainees from the same regime, and to provide them with opportunities for social contacts with other persons. Report details
2023 [I]t can be assumed that the actions of the Alytus prison administration in re-imposing isolation for 48 hours and continuing it for 22 days cannot be regarded as legal (the possibility of re-imposing isolation on the same basis is not provided for in the legislation at all) and following the principle of proportionality. Report details