Guardians often confiscate food, medicines, and cigarettes brought by relatives. When inmates express their protest, they get beaten. According to T. Vinnikova, executive secretary at the State Commission of Affairs of Underage under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, these special facilities for juvenile offenders are in bad shape today. The diet does not include meat, milk, vegetables, and omits sugar. In correctional facilities children are bootless, poorly clothed.
Soap is rare in facilities for juveniles.
It has been a year since children were inspected for tuberculosis, pediculosis, and other dermal diseases. Even though children are often not abused in these facilities, it is there where grown-up criminals share with children with their experience. There, many children get their tattoos that mark their belonging to the criminal world. Terms of investigations are groundlessly protracted, cases remain without attention in prosecutors' offices and courts. That is why children spend many months in pre-trial detainment facilities SIZOs, where cells are blight and dirty.