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Legal instruments & key provisions

Legal instrument Key provision
Code on execution of sentences (Lietuvos Respublikos Bausmių vykdymo kodeksas)The institution of deprivation of liberty organises and implements the resocialisation of arrested and convicted people. This activity also involves other institutions and organisations and reliable volunteers. The purpose of resocialising convicts is to reduce their recidivism. This is based on managing the risk of criminal behaviour and implementing restorative justice. Measures for the resocialisation of convicts are individual and group work with convicts, during which the convicts' abilities to live without crime are developed, and their resocialisation is promoted; means of meeting the spiritual and social needs of convicts; assistance in solving personal and social problems of convicts; measures for the development of social skills and promotion of positive activities; implementation of behaviour correction programs approved by the director of the prison institution; individual or group psychotherapy; psychological assistance; restorative measures aimed at reconciling the convicted and the victim and compensating for the damage caused by the criminal act; other measures, the implementation of which would help convicts to resocialise successfully. General education of convicts is organised in closed and semi-open institutions of places of deprivation of liberty. It is carried out following the procedure established by the Lithuanian legal acts regulating the organisation of the education system.
Order Regarding the implementation of the Code on Enforcement of Punishment, the Law on Probation and the Law on the Execution of ArrestThe employment of arrested and convicted prisoners is organised by the employment organisers of the prison institution. Arrested are included in work only if they want to work and employment organisers have something to offer them. Arrested and convicted persons can engage in creative, artistic and other forms of individual activity during their free time. At the request of the arrested or convicted person and if possible, the institution of places of deprivation of liberty provides them with separate premises suitable for carrying out individual activities, helps to purchase the necessary tools for carrying out these activities, mediates in the sale of created products (organises auctions, organises online shops).

NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS

Year Recommendation Report
2024 The Seimas Ombudsperson concludes that, in this case, the officials did not provide consultations regarding involvement in work activities, did not adequately explain, and did not offer the Applicant all possible employment options, which he could address; therefore Complaint regarding the actions (inaction) of the officers of Pravieniškias 1st Prison, related to not ensuring access to all options foremployment, as far as the requirement to provide adequate and sufficient information is not fulfilled, is grounded. Report details