Inmates undergoing addiction treatment may be assigned labor therapy

According to the draft regulation, based on the inmates’ physical condition and relevant medical indications, labor therapy may be applied as part of the compulsory medical treatment.

Convicted individuals subject to compulsory medical measures will be registered by a narcologist or psychiatrist upon admission to the penal institution. Within three days, they will be diagnosed, and the duration of their mandatory treatment will be determined.

In penal colonies, these compulsory medical measures will be administered by specialized facilities within the penitentiary system.

For inmates held in settlement colonies, compulsory medical treatment will be carried out in designated narcological institutions under the public healthcare system.

The duration of mandatory treatment for individuals with substance use disorders must not be less than six months and must not exceed eighteen months.

All examinations and treatments for such inmates will be conducted in accordance with standards and clinical protocols established by the Ministry of Health.

For patients admitted for inpatient treatment due to alcoholism, the minimum treatment duration in the narcological inpatient unit will be 45 days. For individuals with drug or toxic substance addiction, it will be no less than 60 days.

Each patient will have an inpatient medical record (case history) filled out, containing all necessary personal and medical information.

A medical commission within the correctional institution will oversee the treatment and preventive care. The commission will be chaired by the head of the treatment and preventive care unit and will include a narcologist (or psychiatrist) and general practitioners.

If an inmate is released before completing the compulsory treatment, the administration of the penal institution must notify the narcological facility in the inmate’s residential area, as well as the internal affairs authorities, in accordance with the regulation's guidelines:

• If released after serving the full court-mandated sentence – 10 days in advance;
• If released early due to parole, sentence reduction, amnesty, or pardon – within 3 days of release.

In such cases, a copy of the inmate’s outpatient medical record must also be sent. One copy of the notification is also forwarded to the Medical Department of the Department for the Execution of Sentences under the Ministry of Internal Affairs.