A 53-year-old resident of Pavlodar, convicted of causing bodily harm to her roommate, was sentenced to three years in prison.

           While serving her sentence in a women's colony, the convict was characterized on the positive side: she underwent treatment for alcohol addiction, compensated the victim and embarked on the path of correction. In this regard, after submitting a petition for commutation of punishment, the staff of the institution collected all the necessary materials. By a court decision, the custodial sentence was commuted to restriction of liberty for an unserved term of one year and ten months.

             To continue serving her sentence, the convict was registered with the probation service of the city of Pavlodar. Upon registration, she was given a detailed explanation of the conditions of serving her sentence, as well as warned about responsibility for evading control and the possibility of commuting the punishment to a more severe one.

             Despite this, the woman systematically violated the established procedure for serving her sentence and evaded the supervision of the probation service. As a result, the court's decision replaced the restriction of freedom with imprisonment for an unserved term of one year and five months.

            Currently, the convict has arrived again to continue serving her sentence at an institution of the penal enforcement system in the Abai region.

            "I ruined my own life. When I was given a chance to improve, I couldn't take it. I went back to my old way of life and made mistakes again. The hardest part is realizing that I have let down my minor son, for whom I have limited parental rights. I'm not with him, I can't support him, I can't be a mother to him. Every day I think about how things could have turned out differently. Now I understand that I had a chance to start a new life back then, but I missed it. Now all I have to do is draw conclusions and try never to return to the past," the convict shared.

                — This case clearly demonstrates that commuting a sentence to a more lenient one is primarily a chance for a convict to change his life. However, in the absence of proper conclusions and compliance with the established requirements, the law provides for a return to a more severe penalty. The staff of the penal enforcement system, for their part, provide comprehensive assistance in re-socialization, but much depends on the person himself and his willingness to follow the law," said Svetlana Golikova, head of the special accounting department of the institution.:

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/duisabai/press/news/details/1248572?lang=ru