The so-called informal supervisors move around freely, enter cells, and in general, resolve problems, - Public Defender Nino Lomjaria told reporters in parliament, where she will present a special report to the Human Rights Committee on the situation in penitentiary institutions.

As Nino Lomjaria noted, the problem cannot be denied even by the Ministry of Justice as there is an official correspondence confirming the above. Nino Lomjaria expects that today the Minister of Justice will discuss the ways to resolve this.

"The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (cpt) very loudly confirmed in a report last year that the so-called informal supervisors really exist in one of the penitentiary institutions (establishment No 15). However, we selected 4 largest semi-open and closed institutions in Georgia and our monitoring group found informal supervisors both in semi-open and closed institutions. Informal supervisors move around freely, enter cells, and in general, resolve problems. They tell prisoners not to file complaints and that they will solve problems for them. Prisoners are subjected to coercion, harassment, isolation. We remember three cases when prisoners died in similar conflicts in 2013, 2014, 2015,” Lomjaria said.