KMDLNj: 67 people have died in Kosovo prisons for 20 years

To take preventive measures for the suicide of KMDLN inmates proposes that Kosovo's Correcting Service, the Health Service of Prisons, organisations monitoring these services, as well as other professional psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, sociologists, educators, etc., sit in a round of consultations identifying potential causers and on their basis come up with recommendations for handling these cases.

Below, you have a KMDLNY analysis:

MB I V DEATH AND V HOMES WRITER IN BURGES JULY 1999-2019

The last case of the F.I. convict's suicide. 23-year-old Vushtrria, in the face of detention in the Dubrava Prison, rightly sparked numerous reactions, such as from monitoring organisations, electronic and written media, the SKK itself, and the opinion in Kosovo.

Case of self-absorbed F.I. It happened on September 5th, 2019, and, according to KMDLNI information, the case is being investigated, two correctional officers have been suspended and an investigative line has been clarified that concerns the concrete case.

KMDLNj, based on information from a prisoner, has sought to investigate the surrounding causes that may have directly or indirectly influenced F's self-independence. I. Dubrava Prison. In the meantime, there were unverified reactions that lack of health care as well as physical violence used against the late F. I. may have influenced the tragic outcome of a convict's life in the concrete case of the F.I.

Then, unverified information on the number of suicides in Kosovo prisons came to pass, while there was no difference between cases that have died as a result of incurable diseases and suicide cases, thus creating an unrealistic mirror for treatment deprived of freedom at detention centres and correctional centres in Kosovo, as well as health services being offered in these institutions of freedom deprivation. Despite some concessions and mistakes, KMDLNj, with moral, professional and legal responsibilities, has stated and states that the Kosovo Corresponsive Service is the best service compared to countries in the region and that it is the same attitude and that the IAP and other monitoring organisations, local and international.

According to KMDLNj data that is also data from the SHKK, but other monitoring organisations over the past three years ( 2017, 2018 and 2019) in Kosovo prisons have died and killed 15 prisoners of them 12 have died of diseases and 3 have committed suicide. So, in 2017 the number of disease deaths is 6 prisoners while suicide is 0. In 2018, 2 prisoners died of disease, while 1 prisoner committed suicide. And since the beginning of 2019 until now, four prisoners have died of natural diseases, and 2 prisoners have committed suicide. If we take all cases of deaths and suicides, since 1999 and the door on September 9, 2019, it turns out 67 prisoners have died of disease, and 16 have killed themselves.

If compared with the number of prisoners who have committed suicide in Kosovo with the same category in the US and the EU, it turns out that in Kosovo in 100,000 prisoners, 18 prisoners have committed suicide. In the United States, in 100,000 prisoners there are 100 suicide prisoners and in EU countries, in 100,000 prisoners there are 120 to 150 suicides. KM DLNj has a long assembly experience in the institutions of deprivation from freedom (police ban, detention centres, correctional centres, as well as others ), since 1999. Despite the problems that Kosovo's Correcting Service has witnessed, mainly of material but logistical nature, the number of prisoners to whom nonproportional physical force has been used is insignificant compared to the countries of the region and many EU and US states.

Let's not talk about treating prisoners in Latin America, Asian states or Africa. If reports and statistics are compared, then Kosovo is placed among the states that, in terms of the physical treatment of those deprived of freedom, lies on the top of these positive lists. As for health care, the Prison Health Service shared the fate of public health institutions.

There is no evidence that prisoners are denied health protection, that there are no drugs or that there are no psychologists, psychiatrists and other medical profiles. In any correctional centre, but even in several detention centres, there are full-time psychologists, psychiatrists according to demand and need while health supervision is 24 hours of emergency courses sent to regional hospitals or QKUK. All organizations and institutions that monitor the rights of deprived persons have full access to the card (the ) health file of all persons deprived of freedom where all the health problems they've had before are marked, earned during their stay in prison, all medical visits within and outside prison institutions are recorded as marking the type and time of therapy given to the patient and given to the prisoner.

Especially during his privacy, isolation, or under increased supervision, the prisoner is visited daily by the doctor. In cases of death or suicide of those deprived of freedom, the report on the causes and nature of death is produced. This is at short points to clarify the outlook for the real situation in Kosovo prisons, as well as for physical and health treatment.

KMDLNj sees the problem of the USKK's lack of stabilisation of management in leadership positions, the frequent shift of this staff and political influence during the recruiting of leadership positions, lack of staff training for certain categories, such as for minors with educational mass, or convicted minors, lack of professional staff for female inmates, for victims of narcotics, staff for working with members of national minorities and who are imprisoned as understaffs who will work the so-called radical category.

KMDLNj, as well as other monitoring organisations, have demanded that convicts with tertiary diagnosis and fatal illness be released from punishment or to find some form for the rest of their lives to be spent near the family. If the KMDLNY's recommendation and other monitoring organisations were ignored, it would not happen that inmates with cancer or other incurable diseases would die in prisons but would die at home or in a health institution where they would be sent from the family. If KMDLNY's request and other monitoring organisations were respected, it would not happen that a living corpse such as the case of Driton Hajdari will be held in prison and wait for September 19th when the Condition Freedom Panel will decide on bail if it is alive by then.

According to KMDLNj information, there are 12 to 15 cases when prisoners are held in prisons with a theatre diagnosis and contrary to human rights and thus cause many problems to the Kosovo Health Service and the Kosovo Correcting Service as the sole address of responsibility for the death of prisoners, although their responsibility is to execute a court ruling. The state's revenge on those who violate the law must end with the pronunciation of the sentence then, with the prisoners to deal with other services, primarily the Kosovo Corresponsive Service, and for that there must be full competencies that, until now, are not entirely and worse, have been taken away with some of the competencies it has had. People deprived of freedom in Kosovo need to work, and with that they have the opportunity to take advantage of benefits as well as a budget themselves.

Job-earned Benoffions, as the most efficient tool of resocialization and behavior, are the main link of chain, from the first day of punishment to early release. Prisoners in Kosovo must have the clear offer of what they earn if they accept and pass the resocialisation programme, and for that they should have competition, which so far has not been so.

Prisoners in Kosovo must benefit more from the Treaty for Freedom with Condition, by the president's pardon, and Kosovo should have the law on the Amnisti, which it does not have or has applied according to ethnic or political principle. Prisoners in Kosovo must have more weekends, while those in a regular working relationship during the suffering of punishment should enjoy all the rights granted to the Labour Law, including annual home rest or a place where they decide. In Kosovo, the VIP category of prisoners who in most cases (even for health care) should eventually be eliminated at the expense of those who truly deserve it but who do not have political support, are not materially powerful or were without social status before the suffering of punishment begins.

In conclusion, to take preventive measures for the suicide of KMDLN prisoners, proposes that Kosovo's Correcting Service, the Health Service of Prisons, organisations that monitor these services as well as other professional services ( psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, sociologists, educators etc.) sit in a round of consultations identifying potential causers and on their basis come up with recommendations for handling these cases. The investigation into the rights of radicalised and marginalised prisoners has supported the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society KFOS.