SEVAN CORRECTIONAL FACILTY IN UNSANITARY STATE
Arman Gharibyan

2009/08/05 | 14:59

Society

After visiting the Sevan Correctional Facility the Ministry of
Justice’s Public Monitoring Group reported a number of unsanitary
conditions at the facility.In their report, the monitors state that
there is just one communal bathroom fort the inmates and that due to
the lack of a heating system the waste disposal pipes freeze up in the
winter. The facility’s mess hall was also found to be in poor shape,
lacking a ventilation and heating system.

The report goes on to say that inmates are packed into large rooms and
that the numbers are in violation of corresponding RoA law. Central
heating is practically non-existent and inmates rely on the electric
heaters brought by relatives, but that do to the large areas involved
these prove to be inadequate, especially given the climatic location
of the prison.

The monitors also pointed out that even rooms in the hospital ward
aren’t heated properly since the floors are bare concrete and that
the ward itself lacks necessary medical equipment.