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up on health affairs of inmates and check on the impact of their
environmental conditions such as solitary confinement or labor to
take appropriate measures to prevent or redress injury.
The Law mandates that the seriously ill inmate whose life is in
danger or who is threatened with physical disability shall be
released on health grounds upon a Health Release Committee
order approved by the Secretary-General of the People's General
Committee on Justice, based on the reported medical examination
of the physician concerned.
The Law as well provides for the right of inmates to social care,
having established in each institution a section for social care
supplied with a sufficient number of experts and specialists to
examine the inmate's character and decide on the program
suitable for his treatment. It stipulates for inmates' categorization,
education, training and rehabilitation together with development
of social researches and psychological studies on their cases.
The Law provides for granting bonus-track benefit to the released
that is in need to help him meet his urgent needs after his release.
The Law stipulates for the right of the inmate to visit and
correspond as well as his right to meet his lawyer in private and
also his relatives or his representative or guardian even not during
normal visiting hours, when necessary.
The Law provides for the right of the inmate, who is sentenced to
a freedom-restricting penalty, to 8-day annual leave at intervals,
maximum 4 days running at a time. He is to have the right to an
emergency leave for 72 hours at most in the event of the passing
away of one of his relatives up to the 2nd grade.
The Law mandates that the head of the institution accept any
complaint, verbal or written, to be lodged by the inmate and take
the necessary action in this respect.