TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

Section 4Torture and ill-treatment of children in the context of juvenile justicein the same place with a six-year difference in age. As we know, in adolescencesuch a large difference is particularly felt.…It’s not worth trying to prevent subcultures in corrective colonies. “Infection”with subculture views happens specifically in SIZO and often, whenarriving at a corrective colony from the SIZO underage prisoners begin withinfringements of the regime, because that was exactly what they were taughtin the SIZO. The reasons, in my opinion, are the lack of attention given by SIZOstaff to this specific category of prisoner; the lack of actual differentiation bypersonnel of minors and adults in SIZO9) Denis Kobzin:Violence between minors is fairly widespread. Subcultures are already losingtheir prevalence and influence however this does not determine the levelof violence in such institutions. The level of violence among minors dependsto a larger degree on social, educational and psychological work carried outby the management of the institution.4.5. Tool F, focus group with the participation of humanrights workers and staff of the Human Rights Ombudsperson’sOffice (excerpt from the transcript)(в)Please name the most typical situations which you know of whenviolence arises with respect to minors1) In the first place violence during the criminal investigation in criminalcases… For example, a child is locked in a cell and held in this cell for 24or 48 hours, they don’t summons him, don’t take any testimony, nothing.And that, in my view, is already torture. And then they call him and suggestthat he sign such kind of things. In order to improve this situation, observanceis needed of three criteria: mandatory participation of a defenderrepresenting the minor; mandatory chance to make a first telephone call;and mandatory medical certification during the detention under any conditions.2) In those institutions where minors are serving sentences, our personnelare presently following the human rights violations which take place andit is precisely minors who commit them against other minors. That is the159