42 NPM, the same as in previous reports, points to the issue of having the detained women kept in solitary confinement for an unacceptably long period due to a relatively small number of women in one detention unit. Although the system for the execution of criminal sanctions perceives the isolation /solitary confinement as special and/or disciplinary measure strictly limited in time, in practice, for certain female detainees this is the regular measure taken against them, which indicates the negative aspect of women detention system. During the reporting period, the material conditions have been improved in certain institutions for the enforcement of criminal sanctions. However, three institutions were found to be completely unusable and their refurbishment in accordance with the standards impracticable and therefore, recommendations were addressed to close them and/or to have them moved elsewhere (the district courts in Smederevo and Subotica and Vršac Section of the District Prison in Pančevo). According to the recommendations of the NPM to ensure the prevention of abuse, following the coercive measures against prisoners, the prison doctors enter in their reports on completed checkups, specifying the statements of persons about the manner in which the injuries were inflicted and their opinion about the connection between the coercive measures applied and the injuries, as their legal obligation. In addition to the afore mentioned, acting in line with the recommendations, the institutions have established the Record of Injuries of persons deprived of their liberty, including the practice of making photographs of injuries, while the non-medical staff ceased to attend the medical checkups of the prisoners. Providing of medical care in institutions is still under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice –Administration for Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions. This is not in accordance with the international best practice and deprives the doctors of their independence, first of all in creating assumptions for determining the cases of torture. In the reporting period, acting upon recommendations of the NPM, the Ministry of Health initiated the regular professional oversight over the work of health services within the institutions. The shortcoming pointed to by the NPM that is still present, was that the principle of common enforcement of sanction is not achieved. Specifically, during the day, a large number of convicts do not spend time with other convicts in common occupancies, but instead, they are isolated in the cells all the time (either alone or in small groups). Certain institutions have shown some progress with engaging the prisoners in work, which should be done throughout the entire prison system. The process of classifying the convicts is insufficiently transparent. The convicts are not being sufficiently familiarized with the criteria for improvements, the tutors are mainly dealing with administration of questionnaires. The mechanism of improvements regarding the treatment against the current criteria, involves the harder transfer of convicts to more favourable tutorial groups, so that many convicts are being released from prison from the same tutorial group to which they were classified immediately upon their admission to prison. The prison capacities designated for minors and women are the central (exclusive) institutions accommodating 200 persons each. Strong informal systems are being created there,