The Special Penitentiary Service is responding to the act of protest carried out by the family of the accused NM and to the statement as if the prisoner needs surgery but he is not given adequate care at the penitentiary facility.
Mikheil Sarjveladze, Chairperson of the Committee on Human Rights and Civil Integration of the Parliament of Georgia introduced the programme for release of the prisoner convicted with lifelong imprisonment to the prisoners so convicted in N8 penitentiary facility.
On March 4, 2021, at approximately 10:11 a.m., V.L., a convict in N3 penitentiary facility called the personnel of the facility for help in the cell and told them that his cellmate, N.K., needed medical assistance.
Culinary competition "Master Chef" was held in N16 penitentiary facility. The convicts and the employees of the penitentiary facility competed with each other.
On February 23, 2021, Nino Lomjaria, the Public Defender of Georgia,made a statement for the media after visiting the accused Nikanor Melia in the penitentiary facility and stated that the accused did not have a TV set in the cell.
The convicts of N16 penitentiary facility started growing strawberry seedlings. The project is implemented on the basis of a flower greenhouse in the same facility.
The Special Penitentiary Service is responding to the information disseminated by the TV channel "Mtavari Arkhi” regarding the fact as if a prisoner is chained in a solitary cell in N8 Gldani penitentiary facility, the latter`s staff is giving him the needle in the head and forcing him to drink unknown drugs, because of which the prisoner even attempted suicide.
The Special Penitentiary Service is responding to media reports regarding the fact that a confrontation took place between inmates at N17 penitentiary facility and three inmates died
The convict of the same facility, Professor of Akaki Tsereteli University, Doctor of Political Sciences, delivered a lecture on the topic of democracy and social principles for the convicts in the N16 penitentiary institution.