Prisoners are deprived of their legal rights because of the pandemic

He has shown that pandemic prisoners have denied certain rights in the name of protecting their health.

The “actually since the beginning of the pandemic we have immediately reacted to the protection of those deprived of freedom, those detained at major stations, detention centres, or correctional centres, as if we have also sought the protection of the persons dealing with them and the correcting staff”, Shala has declared.

The safeguard clauses provided by the Government, meanwhile, have been created that in Lipjan prisoners have started working on protective masks and some others that, to some extent or not have prevented but have managed the extent of the pandemic at corrective centers for the environment in which they have been if there were more infectious at first, could not be managed”, he said.

According to Shala, prisoners have been deprived of contact with family visits, as well as the holidays they meet by law.

Prisoners are deprived of freedom, have problems even with freedom of movement and visits, activities within prison because of circumstances that distinguish from outside. Pandemia has made life even more difficult for them for the fact that certain rights that they have acquired with good conduct, employment, or their legal affiliation have been denied in the name of protecting their health. After a while all family visits have been banned or they have not been able to contact families, they have not been able to take advantage of holiday holidays on weekends or holidays they belong to by law outside the prison facility, they have not been able to handle almost any activity that is usually held within the spaces where they are held as being deprived of freedom of”, Shala for Economy Online has declared.

Shala also says the challenge for prisoners has been to conduct health visits to Hospital Centers because after returning to prison they had to enter quarantine.

“A major challenge that has been those prisoners who have been assigned terms to go to hospital centres, whether regional or University Centre of Kosovo in Pristina, for any surgical intervention or for a slightly more serious treatment has been difficult because after returning they had to enter quarantine, and these have been the main challenges”, Shala has declared.

So a contact with families has been lost and only after a time of intervention and the organisation that monitors the rights of persons deprived of freedom among them and KMDLNJ has allowed them to have family visits from a member in the distance but that now after the loss of the situation again the previous situation has been restored so that prisoners without their blame are discriminated against in the sense of unable to make the rights they belong to<x1.

Shala has stressed that the pandemic has also contributed to the worsening economic situation of prisoners and family members.

The subx0> Pandemia has exacerbated the economic situation of prisoners who have been in torment because you should remember that a number of inmates even inside the prison work and thus receive a symbolic salary. That salary is 1 euro per day, but for inmates who have no family income, it helps them with basic needs and they have not been able to work because of closure under circumstances as they have been affected by the financial situation of those prisoners' families”, Shala said.