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REPORT ON THE
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Organized by the
Albanian Helsinki Committee
January 20, 2006
In the context of
increasing awareness about and knowledge of human rights and the implementation
of laws by prison administrations, with the support of the General Directory of
Prisons, the Albanian Helsinki Committee organized on January 20, 2006, a round
table discsussion on improving the request-complaint mechanism and disciplinary
measures, as well as on defining the concrete strategy for implementing Rules of
Conduct for employees in the detention and prison systems. Participating in the
round table discussion were directors of penitentiary institutions in the
country, the General Director of Prisons, and AHC experts.
The methodology used
at this round table discussion sought to address the rapproachement of domestic
legislation to the international one in the area of handling requests-complaints
of convicts and their enforcement in practice.
The discussions
concluded that Albanian legislation is complete as it provides for the
functioning, procedures, and main mechanisms in addressing complaints and
requests of convicts, legal deadlines for addressing them, and the resolution of
cases of delays in meeting these deadlines. In this respect, participants
discussed at length about the role of the Supervisory Commission on the
Execution of Imprisonment Sentences in receiving and addressing convicts'
complaints, with a view to making this mechanism as efficacious as possible.
Furthermore, by means
of theoretical and practical examples referring to Albanian and international
legislation, discussions also focused on the Rules of Conduct to be followed by
prison system employees. The goal was to ensure their efficacious enforcement in
the daily work of this system's employees, in order to guarantee the personal
integrity of every individual and to make use of these rules to resolve
undesirable situations and conduct in prisons.
At the end of this
round table discussion, participants developed concrete recommendations and
suggestions on how to improve and professionally and humanely lead
rehabilitation institutions.
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