94 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.

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