The draft law proposes to amend 17 articles of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine.
In particular, the draft law proposes to give the right to convicted persons to short-term meetings with relatives or other persons less presence of a prison officer, excluding in exceptional cases; specify the number and the format of the meetings; remove provisions envisaging that convicted persons held in a disciplinary isolation ward and taken out for work, in a premises of the ward-type (separate cell) should work separately from other convicts; clarify the provisions on medical and sanitary support of convicts, order of correspondence, telephone conversations; applying for a pardon by persons convicted to life imprisonment after serving by them of at least 15 years of their sentence, etc.
Respective draft law was registered under No. 2685.