TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

Torture and ill-treatment of children in Ukrainenames in different colonies, including ones that sound bad and they may havedifferent meanings.4) Iryna Yakovets:Criminal subculture is prevalent where it is cultivated by the institution’spersonnel. There are certain gradations and groupings among children, howeversuch associations are identical to those which exist outside the colony.5) Mykhailo Romanov:I think that this is indeed a problem since it is the groups of minors who arethe most brutal in their extreme manifestations. They seem very widespreadwhich is facilitated by the fact that in the outside work criminal relations andways of life are effectively promoted (openly or covertly) through numerousmedia.6) Andriy Chernousov:Such a problem is fairly widespread, it’s a child’s copy of the adult world ofcriminals. The way kids are held together in receiving and distribution points,SIZO and colleges of social rehabilitation makes it possible such a culture tobe cultivated.7) Oleh Martynenko:Violence is the basis for minors’ existence in closed groups. The criminalsubculture is the only subculture in such places.8) Oleksandr Abarinov, Public Council attached to the State PenitentiaryServiceThe problem has been virtually eliminated thanks to the work of the PenitentiaryService’s Department on Corrective Colonies.9) Vadim ChovhanIn corrective colonies prisoners who have reached the age of maturity oftenput pressure on minors — all the time there is a kind of subordination.That inevitably leads to a permanent sense of fear among many minors. Peoplewho are officially adults can be held in corrective colonies up to the age of22 (Article 148 §1 of the Penal Code). This means that there can be people held158