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Decree of the Minister of Justice

On approving the Regulation on Organizing Social and Psychological Services with Detainees and Prisoners at Penitentiary Service


For the purposes of increasing efficiency of social and psychological activities with detainees and prisoners at the Criminal Executive Service of the RA Ministry of Justice:

1. To approve the Regulation “On Organizing Social and Psychological work with detainees and prisoners at Penitentiary Service” (is attached).

2. The Order enters into force from the moment of its signing.

D. Harutunyan,

Minister. 

Approved by RA Minister of Justice

1 September 2003

Regulation on Organizing Social and Psychological Services with Detainees and Prisoners at Penitentiary Service

1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

1.1. The present Regulation stipulates the procedure for implementing and monitoring of social and psychological work with detainees and prisoners at the penitentiary institutions.

1.2. Social and psychological work (hereinafter referred to as SP work) with detainees and prisoners shall be implemented in accordance with the RA Constitution, RA legislation, as well as this Regulation and other normative legal acts.

1.3. SP work shall comprise a wide scope of social, psychological, legal, as well as educational, cultural, sports and religious activities.

1.4. SP activities shall be implemented on the basis of the principles of legality, humanitarianism, respect for human rights, freedoms and dignity, as well as individualization and differentiation of SP work.

1.5. SP activities shall vary depending on the penalty as provided by the Criminal Code of theRepublicofArmenia, the inmate’s gender, age, health condition, and where the sentence provides for the deprivation of liberty, also the type of the penitentiary facility and other specifics. 

1.6. The involvement of detainees and prisoners in SP work is voluntary, with the exception of cases provided for by the law.

The involvement of juvenile inmates in SP activities is mandatory.

1.6.1 In the penitentiary institutions of the RA Ministry of Justice (henceforth institutions) SP activities are organized and provided by the SP division or the SP group of the given institution (henceforth SP activity division). Given the importance of SP activities, the employees of the other structural divisions of the institution are indirectly involved in the mentioned activities. The overall coordination of the activities is done by the head of the institution or the acting head of the institution.

1.6.2 The selection of professional directions, technical facilities and methods of implementation of activities of social, psychological and legal nature in the institution is provided by the deputy heads of the SP division (or the respective specialists). The methodical and practical management of the division shall be implemented by the head of the SP division.

1.7 During the course of serving punishment not related to deprivation of liberty the SP activities shall be implemented by the regional bodies of the Penitentiary Service of the RA Ministry of Justice and those are the penitentiary inspectorates.   

1.8 Development of the general strategy of SP activities implemented by the institutions and the penitentiary inspectorates, the monitoring and analysis of the activities, as well as provision of practical and methodical assistance to SP division and inspectorate staff of the institutions shall be carried out by the SP Division of the Criminal Executive Department of the RA Ministry of Justice.

1.9 Results of the studies carried out during the implementation of SP activities shall be regarded important when taking corresponding decisions.

2. MAIN GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF SP ACTIVITIES

2.1 The objective of SP activities is the creation and maintenance of healthy social and psychological environment for the detainees and the prisoners, aimed at maintenance of psychological health and positive social contacts of the detainees and the prisoners, correction, as well as reintegration and adaptation thereof in case of condemnation of punishment relevant to deprivation of liberty;

2.2 Given the objectives of SP activities, the goals of implementation of SP activities are as follows:

1. Maintaining and strengthening the mental health condition of the detainees and the prisoners;

2. Promoting law-abiding behavior and raising law conscience of the prisoners;

3. Creating conditions for prisoner social rehabilitation and correction;

4. Preparing prisoners nearing their release for social reintegration and adaptation;

5. Promoting the detainees’ and prisoners’ social and psychological protection and provision of psychological assistance thereof;

6. Establishing, maintaining and developing the detainees’ and prisoners’ useful links with the wider community;

7. Encouraging detainee and prisoner involvement in SP activities;

8. Ensuring that the detainees’ and prisoners’ physical, educational, cultural needs are met and developed;

9. Ensuring that the detainees’ and prisoners’ spiritual needs are met;

10. Involving the representatives of wider community, public organizations and charitable units in SP activities.

3. IMPLEMENTATION OF SP ACTIVITIES

3.1 For the purposes of implementing the SP activities in an efficient and complex manner planning of activities shall be done.Planning of SP activities shall include identification of main SP directions, general outline of appropriate activities, choosing the methods and techniques, exact distribution of capacities and resources of all the institution sections and services, and coordination of all the activities.

3.2 Planning of SP activities shall be divided into long-term (annual) and current (quarterly) planning.

3.2.1 The long-term plan shall be developed by the Head of SP Unit for the current year, by taking into consideration the recommendations of experts of SP Unit, and when necessary also the staff of the other units of the penitentiary institution. The plan shall be approved by the head of the institution.

3.2.2 The current plan of activities shall include timetables for implementation, registration and analysis of activities as set out in the long-term plan.

3.3.3. The current plan shall be prepared by the group leader on a quarterly basis; it shall be agreed with the head of the SP Unit and approved by the chief of the institution. When developing a new working plan, summary report of activities carried out during the course of the previous program shall be developed.

3.4. Analysis of SP activities shall be carried out on quarterly basis and a corresponding report in an electronic form shall be submitted to SP Unit of the Criminal Executive Department of the RA Ministry of Justice.

3.5. Summarization and analysis of the reports submitted by the institutions on SP activities shall be carried out by the SP Unit of the Criminal Executive Department.

3.6 SP activitieswith detainees and prisoners at penitentiary institutions of the Ministry of Justice of theRepublicofArmeniashall be organized in the following cases:

1.when applying detention as a precautionary measure in cases defined by the Criminal Procedure Code of theRepublicofArmenia;

2.when serving punishments as defined by the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia (except for a fine, depriving a person from a special or military title, rank or qualification rank, confiscation of property, keeping disciplinary battalion when serving the punishment);

3.when applying other criminal imposition means provided by the Criminal Procedure Code of theRepublicofArmenia;

4.when serving the probation period defined by the court in case of conditional non-applying of the punishment prescribed by the RA Criminal Code.

4. IMPLEMENTATION OF SP ACTIVITIES FOR DETAINEES 

When exercising detention as a precautionary measure in cases prescribed by the Criminal Procedure Code of theRepublicofArmenia, SP activities with detainees shall be carried out in three phases:

1. the quarantine phase;

2. current phase;

3. preparatory phase.

4.1. SP activities in the quarantine phase (quarantine phase commences from the moment the detainee is admitted to the institution and ends after the detainee serves that phase and before commencement of the current phase) shall include the following:

1. Carrying out psychological activities immediately after the admission of the detainee to the institution aimed at overcoming stressful mental condition;

2. Providing the detainees with necessary information on their rights and responsibilities, and on the internal regulations (corresponding records shall be made in the detainees’ personal files);

3. Providing social and psychological assistance with situations arising from changes in the social and psychological status as a result of detention;

4. Assessing and studying the needs of a detainee /app. 1 /. On the base of it taking measures directed to solution of more urgent problems;

5. Informing the relatives of the detainee and other persons stated by the detainee on admission of the later in the penitentiary institution;

6. After placing a detainee in the quarantine, insuring the later with proper material-housing and hygiene conditions and food;

7. Defining psychological compatibility of detainees with the purpose of their accommodation in cells. 

4.2. SP activities in the current phase (the current phase commences after expiry of the quarantine phase and ends after the detainee is released from the detention facilities, according to the procedure defined by law or after the court verdict is passed, before commencement of the preparatory phase) shall include the following:

1. Organizing individual meetings with detainees;

2. Looking after providence and maintenance of the material- life, food, medical sanitarian and personal hygiene conditions, taking appropriate measures for improving theses conditions;

3. Fixing informational lists on detainees’ rights and obligations in appropriate sections of keeping detainees and following observation of the detainee rights;

4. Organizing educational, cultural and sport programs aimed at effective organization of detainees’ leisure;

5. Organizing appropriate activities aimed at prevention and settlement of conflicts among detainees in cells;

6. Taking preventive measures against detainees’ refusal from food, simulation of illness, self injury, other prohibited actions in psychologically imbalanced situation;

7. Promoting conditions for detainees’ enjoyment from the library of the institution, taking measures necessary for acquirement of literature, periodical press on the account of the detainees or in the form of subscription;

8. Promoting detainees’ enjoyment of supplementary paid or free medical, hygiene and everyday services;

9. Promoting detainees’ enjoyment of the telephone talks, the small shop of the institution, organizing receipt of parcels, packages, money and letters by the latter;

10. Organizing meeting of the detainees with the relatives thereof and other persons;

11. Consulting the problems of the detainee with his/her relatives who have visited the institution;

12. Organizing consultations and meetings with detainees and their relatives directed to maintenance or restoration of their contacts for improving psychological situation of the detainees in case of absence of contact between the detainee and his/her relative or refusal of relatives for maintaining contacts with the detainee; 

13. Legal consultation to the detainees in the cases when they need to participate in civil-legal deals, as well as on the rights and obligations thereof for enjoying of the rights and obligations thereof;

14. Stimulating detainees’ work activity;

15. Implementing activities aimed at meeting specials needs of disabled detainees;

16. Promoting activities aimed at organizing care of the children and other non-working persons under the auspices of the detainee;

17. Submitting a motion to the head of the institution on the need or expediency of placing the detainee’s up to 3 years old child under his/her care to the children institution or temporarily entrusting the child to relatives and on the base of it taking measures for organization of the child’s care in future;

18. Organizing specific activities with pregnant women or people with up to 3 year old children;

19. Organization of educational activities with juveniles;

20. Organizing individual consultation activities with detainees having committed disciplinary offences, submitting a motion to the head of the institution on early release of a detainee from the punishment cell;

21.Taking measures for organizing or continuing detainees’ elementary, secondary, higher extra mural or distance learning education;

22. Promoting organization of spiritual-religious events, including organizing meeting of the detainees with the chaplains;

23. Meeting with the visiting representatives of mass media, NGOs, international organizations, assisting activities being carried out by them and review of results;

24. Discussing detainee issues with the other divisions of the institution and implementing joint activities in regard to settlement thereof;

4.3. SP activities in the preparatory phase (the preparatory phase commences after the end of the current phase from the moment an accusation judgment against the detainee and ends when the later is moved to the correctional institution) shall include the following:

1. Granting consultative, psychological support to people subject to transfer to another institution for serving punishment;

2. The assessment of persons subject to transfer to other penitentiary facilities /attaching it to the person’s personal file;

3. Defining expediency of involving persons in economic service activities of the institution;

4. Assisting organization of drawing up documents, of the persons subject to being removed to other institutions for serving their punishment in the manner provided by law.

5. IMPLEMENTATION OF SP ACTIVITIES FOR PRISONERS

SP activities for prisoners shall be conducted as to the type of punishment imposed by the court. SP activities with the prisoners shall be implemented for serving the following punishments defined by the Criminal Code of theRepublicofArmenia:

1. depriving from the right of holding certain positions or engaging in certain activities;

2. public activities;

3. corrective labour;

4. detention;

5. imprisonment for a certain time period;

6. life imprisonment.

5.1. SP activities carried out with prisoners during the period of serving the punishment of being deprived from the right of holding certain positions or engaging in certain activities, shall include:

1. Providing the prisoners with the necessary information on their rights and responsibilities and on the internal regulationsthat shall be recorded in the prisoner’s personal file;

2. Engaging a prisoner in new working activities based on the abilities and skills of the later, as well as providing social assistance in finding a job for the later;

3. Psychological consultations aimed at arrangement of the CV of the prisoner and improvement of the psychological condition of the later;

5.2. SP activities with prisoners when performing public work shall include:  

1. Providing the prisoners with the necessary information on their rights and responsibilities and on the internal regulationsthat shall be recorded in the prisoner’s personal file;

2. Disclosing abilities and working, professional skills and submitting a motion to the head of the penitentiary institution and the local self-government bodies on the nature of activities that are worth to be performed by a prisoner, based on the results of findings;

3. Implementing consultations aimed at preventing negligence from work;

4. Covering in the news the activities carried out in the territory of the community, aimed at assessing and encouraging the activities carried out both by the prisoner and the community;

5. Providing social, practical and psychological assistance to relatives of the prisoner for the purposes of correcting the prisoner;

6. Engaging the NGOs in organization of public works. 

5.3 SP activities with prisoners during the period of serving the punishment shall include:

1. Implementing psychological activities with prisoners immediately after their arrival at the penitentiary institution;

2. Providing the prisoners with the necessary information on their rights and responsibilities and on the internal regulationsthat shall be recorded in the prisoner’s personal file;

3. Implementation of preventive activities against refusal by the prisoners from taking food, simulation of sickness and other prohibited activities;

4. Submitting a motion to head of the institution on providing a communication possibilities to a prisoner in emergency situations;

5. Informing the relatives and other next to kin of the prisoner on admission of the later to the penitentiary institution;

6. Looking after the material conditions, food, medical care and personal hygiene providence and maintenance, taking measures for improvement thereof;

7. Organizing individual consultations with prisoners;

8. Consulting with relatives of prisoners or other persons visiting the institution with the aim of resolving the problems of prisoners;

9. Taking necessary measures for enabling a prisoner to make use of the institution library;

10. Taking measures directed to organization of care for persons under the care of the prisoner.

5.4 SP activities with prisoners sentenced for certain time period or life imprisonment shall be organized in three phases:

1. quarantine phase,

2. current phase;

3. preparatory phase.

5.4.1. SP activities in the quarantine phase (quarantine phase commences from the moment the prisoner is admitted to the institution and ends after he/she serves that phase, before commencement of the current phase) shall include the following:

1. Providing the prisoners with necessary information on their rights and responsibilities, and on the internal regulations (corresponding records shall be made in the detainees’ personal files);

2. Preparing the prisoner for serving his/her punishment, providing information necessary for serving the punishment;

3. Informing the relatives and other persons stated by the prisoner on admission of the later in the penitentiary institution;

4. After placing a prisoner in the quarantine, insuring the later with proper material-housing and hygiene conditions and food;

5. Carrying out initial assessment with regard to social-psychological compatibility of a prisoner and submitting the results to the arranging committee.

5.4.2. SP activities in the current phase (the current phase commences after expiry of the quarantine phase and ends after the conditional early release of a prisoner, replacement of the punishment with a milder one or three months before the term of serving the punishment) shall include the following:

1. Studying of social history and psychological characteristics of the prisoner, providing diagnosis and assessment of the needs (Appendix 2);

2. Organizing activities provided by the rehabilitation individual plan developed according to the study;

3. Looking after providence and maintenance of the material- life, food, medical sanitarian and personal hygiene conditions of the prisoners, taking appropriate measures of improving theses conditions;

4. Organizing individual meetings for the prisoners;

5. Consulting the problems of the prisoners with his/her relatives who have visited the institution;

6. Organizing meetings for the prisoners and submitting a motion to the head of the institution on the necessity and expediency of providing the prisoners with a short-term leave;

7. Organizing consultations and meetings with prisoners and their relatives directed to maintenance or restoration of their contacts for improving psychological situation of the prisoners in case of absence of contact between the prisoner and his/her relatives or refuse of relatives for maintaining contacts with the prisoner;

8. Promoting prisoners’ enjoyment of the telephone talks, the small shop of the institution, organizing receipt of parcels, packages, money and letters; 

9. Organizing activities with the prisoners with respect to arrangement of marriage and divorce, as well as settlement of marital-family problems thereof;

10. Submitting a motion to the head of the institution on early release of the prisoner;

11. Carrying out individual and group consultation activities aimed at prevention of possible conflicts among the prisoners and settlement of such conflicts;

12. Implementing assessment and drawing up characteristics of the prisoners on regular basis;

13. Organizing individual work with high risk and vulnerable prisoner groups and implementing specific programs;

14. Deciding on the expediency of involving the prisoners in commercial service, as well as other activities;

15. Taking measures for organizing or continuing detainees’ elementary, secondary, higher extra mural or distance learning education;

16. Improving conditions promoting disclosure of creational abilities of the prisoners and self-improvement thereof;

17. Organizing educational, cultural and sport programs aimed at effective organization of prisoners’ leisure;   

18. Promoting organization of spiritual-religious events, including organizing meeting of the prisoners with the chaplains;

19. Promoting employment of the prisoners, as well as insuring protecting of the employment rights thereof;

20. Organizing activities aimed at social insurance of the prisoners;

21. Implementing activities aimed at meeting special needs of disabled detainees;

22. Organizing specific activities with pregnant women or people with children of up to 3 years old;

23. Promoting activities aimed at organizing care of the children and other non-working persons under the auspices of the prisoner;

24. Submitting a motion to the head of the institution on the need or expediency of giving the prisoner’s up to 3 years old child staying with him/her to children institution or temporarily entrusting the child to relatives and taking measures for organization of the child’s care in the future;

25. Implementing measures with regard to organization of leisure and education of children living in the institution;

26. Organizing activities aimed at establishing communication between the prisoner and his/her child living in the institution for children

27. Organizing educational activities with juveniles;

28. Implementing special activities with persons sentenced to life imprisonment;

29. Promoting implementation of events and programs of educational, cultural and other nature presented by the Mass Media, NGOs, international organizations and charity unions, assisting the activities being implemented and summarizing the results thereof;

30. Implementing special activities in cases of rejection of the prisoner’s conditional-early release, replacement of the sentence with a milder one, as well as expediency of applying pardon/amnesty petitions of the President of the Republic of Armenia;

31. Promoting prisoners’ enjoyment of supplementary paid or free medical, hygiene and everyday services;

32. Discussing with the other divisions of the institution the problems relating to the prisoners and implementation of joint actions aimed at resolution of such problems. 

5.5 SP activities with the prisoners in the preparatory phase (the preparatory phase commences after the end of the current phase at least three months before the prisoner’s conditional early release, mitigation of the punishment and serving the full term of the punishment and expires after the prisoner’s serving his/her term of punishment) shall include the following:

1. Developing the prisoners’ release program (Appendix 4), insuring implementation of the planned organizational activities;

2. Assisting the prisoners on issues concerning employment and social-life insurance, as well as implementation of activities aimed at improvement of the relationships of the prisoner with his/her environment;

3. Taking measures for accommodating people of old age to corresponding institutions if they have no permanent place of residence;

4. Reporting to the head of the institution on necessity or expediency of accommodating juveniles who have no shelter or place of permanent residence in children’s institutions or entrusting them to their relatives or other persons and taking appropriate measures in that respect;

5. Assessing the prisoners and providing characteristics on deciding the expediency of conditional early release of the prisoners, mitigating the punishment thereof, as well asexpediency of pardon/amnesty petitions of the President of the Republic of Armenia; 

6. Providing appropriate social-psychological assistance to those prisoners who have been released conditionally or early, whose sentence has been replaced by a milder one or who have completed serving their sentences in full;

7. Providing assistance in drawing up documents according to the procedure defined by law to be handed to the prisoners early released from serving the punishment, having received mitigation of punishment or having served the full term of punishment and insuring in time delivery thereof to the prisoners.

5.6. SP activities in the current and preparatory phases shall be implemented according to the procedure prescribed below:

5.6.1. To ensure efficiency of SP services, prisoners’ groups shall be created within the institutions (henceforth groups), which shall be the main body dealing with the organization and implementation of SP activities.Number of the groups in the institutions is defined given the expediency of efficient organization of SP activities.

5.6.2. Placing of the prisoners as to the groups shall be carried out through taking into account their social and psychological characteristics, health condition, criminogenic behavior, psychological compatibility and system of values;

5.6.3. Placing of prisoners into the groups is done by a committee set up by the order of the head of the institution based on the results of the preliminary study. Member composition of the committee comprises the head of the institution, deputy heads, heads of the divisions, heads of groups and the deputy heads of the SP division;

5.6.4. The prisoners shall be placed in the groups by the order of the head of the institution. An extract of the order is attached to the prisoner’s personal file. Prisoners engaged in economic service activities shall be grouped into the same group. Motions on early release or mitigating the punishment of the prisoners shall be brought to the court by the decision of the committee.

5.6.5. A SP specialist in each group is appointed as a group leader (hereinafter, a group leader), who is in charge of organizing and implementing the basic activities being carried out with the prisoners included in the group. The activities of group leaders shall be coordinated and supervised by the head (deputy head) or the acting head of the institution.

5.6.6. As a rule, prisoners shall be included in the same group for the entire duration of their sentence. Transfer from one group to another shall be possible with the written order of the head of the institution, based on the group leader’s justified motion submitted to the grouping committee.

5.6.7. Prisoners who are transferred to a penal solitary confinement cell, cell-type building or penal cells shall not be removed from their group. Special targeted activities shall be conducted with them in order to prevent possible commitment of violations by them.

6. PROCEDURE OF PROVIDING ASSESSMENT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PRISONERS IN THE STAGE OF SP ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION 

6.1. Carrying out prisoner assessment is a teamwork being done by different specialists. Assessment of prisoners shall be drawn up taking into account the purpose of the assessment and the sentence imposed. Characteristics shall be prepared based upon the assessment results.

6.2. Preliminary assessment shall be drawn up within a month period after the prisoner is placed in the institution.

6.3. Current assessments shall be drawn up in accordance with the period of time stipulated in the individual rehabilitation work plan of the prisoner (depending on the sentence, with the difference of six months as a minimum time period and one year as a maximum time period).

6.4. Based on the assessment results, characteristics shall be drawn up by the group leader in cases of submission of the prisoner for conditional release or replacing the punishment for a milder one or the expediency for amnesty issued by the President of the Republic of Armenia taking into account the opinions of deputy heads of SP division and also conclusions drawn by other structural departments.   

6.5. The characteristic involves assessment results being done during detention and sentence period, as well as information on the following:

1. General data on prisoner (First Name, Second name, date of birth, nationality, citizenship, home address, marital status);

2. Data on criminal record, the court having taken the decision, the corresponding article of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, date of beginning of detention, date of the end of serving the punishment, the term of remaining in the given institution, information on filing an appeal by the prisoners the decision and verdicts and the correspondent decisions taken by the superior court instances;

3. Existence of previous convictions, conditional early release, pardon by the President of the Republic of Armenia, or release due to application of amnesty or reduction of the term of punishment;

4. Exercise of disciplinary punishments and encouragements;

5. Education, profession and professional skills;

6. Participation in cultural, educational and other activities;

7. The fact of compensation to the victim by the prisoner;

8. Results of actions planned by the individual rehabilitation program;

9. Contact and relations with family, children under his/her guardianship;

10. Limitations in terms of health condition and working abilities;

11. Psychological conclusion on the prisoner behavior and psychological peculiarities and the dynamics;

12. Risk degree and conclusion on defining expediency for conditional release or replacing the punishment for a milder one or for defining the expediency exercising amnesty.

13. Other information, which may be taken into consideration when drawing up the characterization).

7. IMPLEMENTATION OF SP ACTIVITIES WHEN APPLYING OTHER CRIMINAL-LEGAL ENFORCEMENT MEANS

7.1. When applying other criminal-legal enforcement means prescribed by the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, in case of means of enforcement of medical nature alongside with serving the punishment, the SP activities are mandatory and shall include the following:

Developing and implementing SP programs aimed at avoiding alcoholism and drug addiction;Carrying out information and consultation activities aimed at maintenance and continuation of activities with the detainees, as well as the next to kin thereof in the preparatory stage of releasing from the institution.

8. IMPLEMENTATION OF SP ACTIVITIES DURING THE PROBATION PERIOD DEFINED BY THE COURT IN CASE OF CONDITIONAL NON-APPLICATION OF PUNISHMENT

8.1. SP activities in case of undergoing the probation period in connection with conditional non-application of punishment prescribed by the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, conditional release from serving the punishment and conditional early release from punishment (if corresponding decisions are taken by court) shall have a mandatory nature;

8.2. SP activities shall be implemented by the respective specialists of the penitentiary inspection in cooperation with the other staff;

8.3. SP activities shall include:

  1. studying the prisoner, developing an individual program of carrying out SP activities with the later, including thorough social and psychological therapy, social control, educational and employment activities, as well as other enforcement means and programs promoting positive change and improvement of the behavior, organizing implementation of the mentioned activities and observing implementation thereof;
  2. providing the prisoner with information on his/her rights and obligations (by attaching the reference to his/her personal file);
  3. during the period of serving the punishment organizing visits to the permanent residence, working place and educational institution of the prisoner, collecting and analyzing information on the prisoner, his/her behavior from the relatives and other persons, and if necessary introducing changes in the individual program;
  4. undertaking activities aimed at supporting maintenance and improvement of the prisoner’s residence and social-life conditions;
  5. promoting prisoner’s educational and working activities;
  6. providing social, psychological and other assistance to the prisoner or his/her family aimed at correcting the prisoner, as well as involving the later in the community social programs and insuring observation of social rights by the state provided by law;
  7. developing a special social-psychological program aimed at giving up alcohol and drug addiction by the prisoner;
  8. cooperating with local self-government bodies, social services, educational, community and other institutions for the purposes of involving the community in the implemented activities and performing those activities in a due manner.       

PRISONER ASSESSMENT CARD

I. Information on the prisoner and the crime committed by him

1. Last name

2. First name

3. Patronymic

4. Nickname

5. Date of birth     

6. Age

7. Sex

8. Citizenship

  1. no
  2. RA
  3. RF
  4. Iran IR
  5. Near east
  6. Eastern Europe
  7. Western Europe
  8. USA
  9. other

9. Nationality

  1. Armenian
  2. Russian
  3. Yezidi
  4. Kurd
  5. Persian
  6. Georgian
  7. Ukrainian
  8. Arab
  9. Other

10. Place of residence and address before the imprisonment 

Country

Region

  1. Aragacotn
  2. Kotayk
  3. Lori
  4. Shirak
  5. Gexarkunick
  6. Sjunick
  7. Tavush
  8. Ararat
  9. Armavir
  10. Vayocdcor

City

Village

Street index, street, app, tel.

11. Under which article(s)is the prisoner sentenced for this time

Type of the crime

  1. Against life and health
  2. Against human freedoms, and dignity
  3. Against sexual and sexual freedom
  4. Against human and civil constitutional rights and freedoms
  5. Against family and the child interests
  6. Against property
  7. Against economic activity
  8. Against public security
  9. Against safety of computer information
  10. Against public order and morality
  11. Against public health
  12. Against security of environment
  13. Against safety of the constitutional order basis and state
  14. Against civil service
  15. Against ruling order
  16. Against justice
  17. Against military service order
  18. Against peace and human humanity safety

12 .The date of sentence

13. Whichcourt have taken the sentence/decision

  1. Court of 1strange Erebuni and Nubarashen
  2. Court of 1strange of Kentron and nor Marash
  3. Court of 1strange of Agapnyak and Davitashen
  4. Court of 1strange of Avan and nor norck
  5. Court of 1strange of Arabkir and Kanakher Zeytun
  6. Court of 1strange of Shengavit
  7. Court of 1strange of Malatia-Sebastia
  8. Court of 1strange of kotayck region
  9. Court of 1strange of Ararat region
  10. Court of 1strange of Armavir region
  11. Court of 1strange of Aragacotn region
  12. Court of 1strange of Shirack region
  13. Court of 1strange of Lori region
  14. Court of 1strange of Tavush region
  15. Court of 1strange of Gexarckunick region
  16. Court of 1strange Of Vayoc dzor region
  17. Court of 1strange of Sjunick region
  18. Court of appeal 
  19. Appeal court for criminal and military cases

14. Punishment length.

Year

15. Existence of civil suit 

1. yes

2. no

If yes, its amount

16. Beginning of the detention

17. From which institution has he/she been removed here(code)

18.  Date of removal

19. How long did he/she spent there?

20. Existence of punishments and encouragements during the stay there.

Punishments  

1. Yes 

2. No

Encouragements

1. Yes 

2. No

How he/she has been characterized

1. positive 

2 .negative

21. Brief description of the crime committed and the attitude towards it 

22. Was he/she expecting such a sentence

1. yes

2. no

If not, what sentence was he/she expecting?

23. Has the court decision been appealed?

1. yes

2. no

If yes, what has been the result of the appeal? 

1. The sentence has been left unchanged.

2. Punishment has been changed for a milder one

3. Punishment has been changed for a tougher one

24. Term for the submission for the conditional early release

25. Term for the submission for moving to another criminal-executive institution for replacing the punishment with the milder one

26. End of imprisonment

27. Previous convictions

1. Yes

2. No

If yes, note the number of previous convictions

1.1

2.2

3.3

4.4

5.5 -9

6.10 and more

28. Previous convictions, by which imprisonment decision has been made 

 

Date

Article

Measure of penalty

Basis of release

1

 

 

 

1. Serving the punishment whole

…

 

 

 

2. Conditional release

…

 

 

 

3. Amnesty

…

 

 

 

4. Pardon

13

 

 

 

5. Other

Punishments received for disciplinary violations during the previous convictions.

  1.  Non 
  2. Warning 
  3. Deprivation of next visits, delivery 
  4. Punishment cell 
  5. Removing to special regime 
  6. Removing to cell typed building
  7. Other

30. Did he/she previously make an attempt of escaping from prison?

1. yes 

2. no

II. Information on the family, family conditions and social situation

31. Marital status

  1. single
  2. married
  3. factually married 
  4. divorced
  5. factually divorced
  6. widowed

32. Family composition

  1. himself / herself
  2. father
  3. mother
  4. spouse
  5. children
  6.  relatives

33. How many members does his/her family consist of?

34. Number of dependents prior to the imprisonment

From them number of juveniles

1.1

2.2

3.3

4.4 and more

35. a) Persons who have taken their guardianship after the detention

  1. grown children
  2. father
  3. mother
  4. spouse
  5. relatives
  6. friends

b) Organizations who have taken their guardianship after the detention

  1. Gumri ‘The house of children”
  2. Gumri ‘Huys’ children’s home
  3. Yerevan ‘Zatick’ children’s home
  4. Norq Marash ‘The house of childe’
  5. Gavar’s childrens’ house
  6. Vanazdors’ childrens’ house
  7. Kotayks’ “Sos” childrens’ house
  8. Other organizations

36. Providing with the place of residence before the detention

  1. lived in his/her own apartment
  2. lived in parent’s apartment
  3. lived at the apartment of a relative
  4. rented the residence
  5. had no place of residence

37. The material safety condition of the family before his/her detention 

  1. they were not deprived of anything
  2. they could allow their selves some expensive shopping
  3. the money was hardly enough for every day expenses
  4. they could hardly get along

38. The sources of the family income before his/her detention

  1. salary
  2. self-employment
  3. state benefits, pension, stipend
  4. income from the agriculture
  5. sale of the property
  6. aid from the relatives, friends
  7. aid from the relatives working in abroad

39. The possible communication with the family

Visits

1. yes 

2. no

Letters

1. yes

2. no

Phone calls

1. yes 

2. no

40. Members of the family through whom he/she would like to communicate with the family

  1. grown children
  2. father
  3. mother
  4. spouse
  5. sister/brother

41. Is there an obstacle for communicating with the family?

1. yes

2. no

If yes, what type of obstacle in particular

  1. the absence of measures of the family
  2. the family members do not want to communicate
  3. he/she does not want to communicate with the family
  4. the family lives far from the place

42. With whom would he/she like to keep contact apart from the family members?

  1. friends
  2. relatives
  3. representatives of religious community
  4. organizations
  5. other

III. Information on the education, specialization and employment

43. Education

  1. non
  2. elementary
  3. incomplete secondary 
  4. secondary
  5. special technical
  6. undergraduate 
  7. graduate

44. Profession /if has an approving diploma, certificate/

  1. doctor
  2. engineer
  3. architecture
  4. agriculturist
  5. veterinary surgeon
  6. specialist of economical sphere
  7. specialist of cultural sphere
  8. philologist, translator
  9. journalist, specialist in literature
  10. lawyer
  11. mathematician
  12. physicist
  13. chemist
  14. historic
  15. philosopher
  16. psychologist
  17. sociologist
  18. biologist
  19. specialist of international relations and politics
  20. mechanic
  21. specialist of computer
  22. psychical trainer
  23. pedagogue
  24. geographer
  25. military specialist
  26. other

45. he/she has some professional skills

  1. hairdresser
  2. cattle breeder, farmer
  3. doctors’ assistant
  4. tailor
  5. turner
  6. driver
  7. carpenter
  8. currier
  9. joiner
  10. jeweler
  11. carpet maker
  12. stonemason
  13. bricklayer
  14. potter
  15. tin man
  16. driver
  17. car repairer
  18. glazier
  19. blacksmith
  20. cobbler
  21. upholsterer
  22. painter
  23. computer operator
  24. baker
  25. cook
  26. other

46. Type of employment before the detention

  1. worker
  2. servant
  3. enterpriser
  4. farmer
  5. student of secondary school
  6. student pf technical institution
  7. student of graduate institution
  8. housewife
  9. pensioner
  10. other activity
  11. unemployed
  12. without specific employment

47. The existence of job before the detention

1. Yes

2. No

Data on the last job

Job Place

Beginning

End

Post

Reason of retirement

 

/ / /

/ / /

 

1. Arrest

2. According to his apply

3. Reduction of staff

4. Closure of the institution

5. Dismissal

IV. Hobbies and leisure activities

48. Preferable activity in leisure

49. Attitude to religion

  1. not believing
  2. follower of Armenian Apostolic Church
  3. catholic
  4. orthodox
  5. protestant
  6. Muslim
  7. Buddhist
  8. Huday
  9. Judas
  10. Witness of Jehovah
  11. Armenian evangelic
  12. Pentecost
  13. Baptists
  14. Mormon
  15. Krishna
  16. Follower of other religion

V. Health condition

50. Existence of health problems

1. Yes 

2. No

If yes, what kind of problems?

  1. mental
  2. nervous
  3. cardiovascular
  4. fulcrum- moving
  5. respiratory
  6. endocrine
  7. intestine -stomachache
  8. urinary -sexual
  9. skin –venereal
  10. optic
  11. hearing
  12. other

51. Health limitations in ability to work

  1. non 
  2. temporary 
  3. permanent

52. Attitude to alcohol

  1. does not use
  2. uses, but moderately
  3. sometimes exceeds the norm

53. Attitude to narcotic drugs

  1. has never tried
  2. has used in the past, but has given up 
  3. has used before imprisonment

54. What problems is he/she concerned with

  1. health condition
  2. social security of the family
  3. communication with the family
  4. relationships with the environment
  5. the issue of guardian-ship of the minor children
  6. the issue of persons being under his/her guardian-ship
  7. problems referring to his/her punishment
  8. the problem of adaptation
  9. the problem of appeal
  10. the problem connected with the defense

Special marks on the prisoner

Weakness for alcohols

1. yes

2. no

Weakness for narcotic drug 

1. yes

2. no

Showing of violence

1. yes 

2. no

Inclination for sexual crimes 

1. yes 

2. no

Non-respectful attitude towards the environment

1. yes

2. no

Inclination for harming his/her own person 

1. yes 

2. no

Level of risk of again committing a crime

  1. high
  2. medium 
  3. low

Date of registration

Register 

VIII. Preparative plan for prisoner release

1. Safety in Employment after release 

1.Yes 

2. No

2. Need of social aid everyday necessities 

1. Yes

2. No

3. Security with the place of residence 

1. Yes 

2. No

2. Basis of release

  1. Serving the punishment whole
  2. Amnesty
  3. Pardon
  4. Conditional early release
  5. Early release from serving the punishment because of sickness
  6. Replacing the punishment with the milder one
  7. Other

3. Liable to administrative supervision

1. Yes 

2. No

The body of supervision

  1. Erebuni and Nubarashen criminal-executive inspection
  2. Kentron and nor Marash criminal-executive inspection
  3. Agapnyak and Davitashen criminal-executive inspection
  4. Avan and nor norck criminal-executive inspection
  5. Arabkir and Kanakher Zeytun criminal-executive inspection
  6. Shengavit criminal-executive inspection
  7. Malatia-Sebastia criminal-executive inspection
  8. Kotayck region criminal-executive inspection
  9. Ararat region criminal-executive inspection
  10. Armavir region criminal-executive inspection
  11. Aragacotn region criminal-executive inspection
  12. Shirack region criminal-executive inspection
  13. Lori region criminal-executive inspection
  14. Tavush region criminal-executive inspection
  15. Gexarckunick region criminal-executive inspection
  16. Vayoc dzor region criminal-executive inspection
  17. Sjunick region criminal-executive inspection

4. Liable to removal to another institution

1 .Yes 

2. No

if yes, name of the institution

5. Date of the release from the institution

6. The card is subject to be archive

The date for card closure