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Detention issue

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Legal instruments & key provisions

Legal instrument Key provision
Order Regarding the implementation of the Code on Enforcement of Punishment, the Law on Probation and the Law on the Execution of ArrestThe correction institution organises meals for inmates. Inmates are fed according to menus approved by the director of the correctional institution. Minors, pregnant women and nursing mothers are fed 4 times a day, and other inmates are fed 3 times a day. The feeding schedule must be made so that the intervals between feedings are not shorter than 3 and not longer than 5 hours (excluding the time for sleeping). For inmates kept in cells, food is delivered to the cells in heating devices. Others eat in the cafeteria. The correction institution's director approves the meal schedule for inmates in the canteen. Food must be prepared 3 or 4 times a day according to the requirements of technological processes and food hygiene norms and menus.
Order Regarding the amendment of the order of the Director of the Prisons Department under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania dated May 2, 2006 no. 4/07-117 "On the approval of the rules for the organization of meals for persons held in remand prisons and places of deprivation of liberty"Inmates are fed following the diets that conform to physiological nutritional norms and, as far as possible, to their religious beliefs. Inmates for whom the doctor has prescribed dietetic nutrition based on the patient's illness are fed according to dietetic nutrition menus.
On the approval of the Lithuanian hygiene norm HN 134:2015 "Health safety requirements for places of deprivation of liberty and custody of territorial police institutionsAll places of deprivation of liberty must have drinking water.

NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS

Year Recommendation Report
2018The NPM would like to see the implementation of measures to ensure change in the legal regulation by allowing detainees serving sentences in cell-type premises to store (non-) perishable foodstuffs in refrigerators. Report details