US Embassy donates hardware for electronic service, monitoring tags to Georgia’s Justice Ministry
It added probationers could register for the service and receive it through the device in Public Service Halls and municipal venues without having to visit the Probation Bureau, ensuring anonymity and increasing the geographical area for probations. Photo: Ministry of Justice
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Georgia’s Justice Ministry has received 10 devices providing electronic control and services of probationers and 50 pieces of monitoring tags for those under house arrest from the United States Embassy.
The Ministry said on Friday the diplomatic office had donated the equipment, in addition to handing a vehicle and digital equipment for distribution and sale of agricultural products to the Centre for Professional Training and Retraining of Convicts.
The body added the former devices would expand the area of access to services for probationers as the hardware would be distributed to 10 territorial units throughout the country, increasing the total number of equipped facilities to 27.
It added probationers could register for the service and receive it through the device in Public Service Halls and municipal venues without having to visit the Probation Bureau, ensuring anonymity and increasing the geographical area for probations.
Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze on Tuesday told Imedi TV the implementation of the new penitentiary code was “one of the great achievements of modern Georgia”.
Ongoing reforms in Georgia’s penitentiary system, including efforts aimed at ensuring accessible education and digital university for inmates, were discussed on Wednesday in a meeting between the country’s Justice Minister Rati Bregadze and heads of the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze on Monday unveiled a new “small-sized, highest European-standard” penitentiary facility designed for 700 convicts in the western Georgian town of Laituri in Guria region.
Convicts and employees of penitentiary institutions across Georgia will receive public services at their facilities in a project promoted as a “Georgian innovation” by the Justice Ministry.