52 to convicts split into confined units. Moreover, the social events that are only meagre in number in these institutions are organized for small groups of people. The stated reason for this is the lack of motivation to be engaged in work and be included in activities that could be organized. Nevertheless, the NPM believes that the Institutions for enforcement of criminal sanctions should offer the widest possible range of jobs and purposeful daily activities to persons in prisons and motivate them to take part in them. The positive example is the PCI Niš that considerably improved its work and treatment of persons in prisons and thus became an example of good practise in the work of such institutions. This institution made the significant improvement with the accommodation capacities and offered different forms of activities for the convicts, while out of 1400 convicts in the Institution, around 1000 of them are working.87 In 2016, the NPM also dealt with the position of transgender persons deprived of liberty. The competent authorities were recommended to enable the transgender persons to, upon being admitted to the institution, decide whether its personal and body search will be conducted only by the officer of the specific gender or if a combined personal and body search is to be conducted, or to have the officers address the transgender persons in the gender with which they identify themselves other than if the person asks otherwise, as well as to deliver appropriate training for the staff on the treatment of lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender and intersex prisoners. The NPM received the response that due to the applicable regulations, it is not possible to act as recommended when it comes to personal and body search or addressing the transgender persons, but that the staff is being trained on the mechanisms for achieving the gender equality, standards and principles of equality and non-discrimination with respect to the sexual orientation and gender identity and on the appropriate communication with the LGBT population. 87 “The Prison in Nis started the production of parts for the cars, but there are some convicts who do not want to work“the Blic, January 16, 2017, http://www.blic.rs/vesti/drustvo/u-niskom-zatvoru-pocela-proizvodnja-delova-zaautomobile-ali-ima-osudenika-koji-ne/htv2djy.