The explanatory note to the document notes that this will help reduce by almost half the number of children in children’s homes in correctional institutions. Today, the limit of its occupancy is 873 places, while at the end of August 2022, 93 children were in pre-trial detention centers with their mothers, and 331 children were in the children’s homes of correctional institutions over the past year. .
In addition, “the presence of a child with its mother while serving a sentence imposed by a court encourages a woman to fulfill her duty to raise a child and at the same time allows her to form law-abiding behavior, contributes to her resocialization after his release from prison,” the document says.
