According to Arman Danielyan, the president of Civil Society Institute, it would be so easy to change the street rules of “Armavir” penitentiaries. ”You just put a condition before the prisoner to behave in such a way you tell him or he would be send to “Nubarashen” penitentiary and stay there in bad conditions”.
He thinks that in our reality the situation is the opposite as those who do not adjust to the criminal manners, carry their punishment in worse conditions than those who prefer to live in these manners. This situation leads to a series of problems that exist in prisons.
In this case the lawyer claimed that the quality of food in penitentiaries is very bad. If the deliveries were banned and they tried to make the food of bad quality there would be revolt. This leads to another problem that is: most part of the food is stolen as how worse the food is, less people will eat it.
According to him, corruption is related to each sector of the prison system. ”Phone, good cell, bad cell, to have TV, go for a walk, and bathe; anything in prison may be used to make money. Give money for not harming, examining or bothering them. This system works closely with alternative structures of the banditry world. There each one has his representative who takes money and sends it to relevant bodies.
In reply to our question that after the head of the RA Criminal Executive Department, Arthur Osikyan was assigned in his post there were thoughts that the problems will be solved, Mr. Danielyan said.” Arthur Osikyan cannot solve that problem alone. Today, Osikyan works with the same people who were previously in that system. The system should be changed. I am sure he wants to change something. But to what extend he manages to do is another matter.”
