The Law determines investigative detention facilities as an establishment for executing criminal offences, and improves: procedure of controlling bodies’ visits to establishments for executing punishment; procedure and conditions of executing punishment in a form of an arrest; procedure and conditions for serving a sentence in a form of restriction of liberty (the right to have portable personal computers and accessories to them; the right to use mobile communication means).
The Law also stipulates specificate rights of the convicted and their obligations; short-term departures outside the colony for receiving medical care if such care can not be provided on the territory of a respective place of detention; increase a number of meetings for the convicted; cancel public control over persons convicted on parole.
The document stipulates specify rules for detaining persons with tuberculosis; improve medical care for the detained; etc.
Respective amendments were made to the Criminal Executive Code of Ukraine.
Respective bill was registered under No. 4525.