CAT/OP/POL/CSPRO/1 109. In 2016–2018, 25 modern production halls were accepted for use, creating more than 2,000 new jobs. 110. Currently, 11 production facilities are under construction, in which already in 2019 at least 1,000 convicted persons will find employment. Actions complementary to the ‘employment for prisoners’ programme. Knowledge– education–development operational programme – (power) for 2016–2020 111. Project title: ‘Increasing professional qualifications of prisoners to integrate them into the labour market after the imprisonment period’: • Systemic project value: PLN 131.2 million; • Scheduled project period: 4 July 2016 to 31 December 2020; • The main assumptions are as follows: • Training for at least 46,128 prisoners; • At least 3,844 training and reintegration cycles; • Employing at least 56% of those who completed the training (27,750 people); • Areas of corrective efforts within training and reintegration cycles; • professional courses in attractive fields (such CNC operator, electrician certified by the Association of Electrical Engineers, caretaker for the elderly, welder); • economic activation training sessions; • first aid courses. 112. In total, in 2016–2018, 2,167 workshops were organised, during which 25,395 prisoners were trained. 70,1% of those who completed such training programme were employed. To achieve this objective, the amount of PLN 65,192,155.12 was spent, which accounted for 49% of funds available for the objective. Disciplinary and restraint cells 113. With regards to paras. 94, 95 and 97 of the report, Poland submit the following. The penalty of solitary confinement is applied only for gross violations of order and discipline and, being a special regime, it is regulated in detail in the Penal Enforcement Code. Prior to its application, a doctor or a psychologist issues an opinion on whether the convicted person may be made subject to this type of penalty. If the penalty is supposed to last for the period longer than 14 days, an approval from the penitentiary judge is required. The rule of humanitarian treatment safeguards the convicted person’s right to appeal against the decision of the director before the court and in justified cases it may be decided not to apply disciplinary sanctions or suspend the execution of the penalty imposed, replace it with less severe or remit it. When the penalty is applied, the convicted person is constantly subject to psychological and educational supervision so that an immediate reaction may be taken and appropriate decisions may be made by a competent body authorised to execute the penalty. 114. It should be emphasised that in any case before applying disciplinary sanction the person accused of disciplinary misconduct is heard, the opinion of the supervisor is solicited and, if necessary, the person applying for punishment is interviewed, opinions of other people are taken into consideration and witnesses’ statements are collected. Proceedings may be carried out in presence of other convicted persons, if this is justified by formative reasons. Informing the convicted person about the possibility of appealing against a decision issued is an established course of procedure and it results from the regulations governing the execution of imprisonment sentences. 115. A disciplinary sanction consisting in solitary confinement is a burdensome punishment, entailing specific burdens related to the punished person’s stay in a single cell. For this reason, before such penalty is applied, the convicted person undergoes medical and 28