Annual Report 2010 by the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture help to channel certain artistic or instructional interests amongst inmates, such as workshops on radio, theatre, music, painting, laughter therapy, magazines for internal distribution, cultural exchanges with secondary pupils outside, etc. A positive mention should be made of the wide and varied array of activities of this nature to be found at most prisons, as well as the involvement of an extremely ample array of social sectors these activities involve. Inmates can spend several hours a day outside their cells They can exercise or spend time outside 348. Inmates spend several hours a day outside their cells, with restrictions for those prisoners who are in first degree (who are entitled to at least four hours a day of communal life), in special departments (at least three hours per day in the yard), who have been confided to their cells as a disciplinary measure (who are entitled to just two hours outside in the yard) or who are in provisional solitary confinement, in which case this lasts only as long as is strictly necessary. In order to allow inmates to exercise or spend time outside, the prisons have gyms, which have differing facilities available, and prison yards. The more modern prisons have spacious and varied sports facilities, such as a sports centre, gym, football pitches and, in some cases, swimming pools. By contrast, the older prisons have shortcomings that, given the design of their buildings, are difficult to remedy; as in the case of the lack of ventilation and the deteriorated state of the ceiling in the men’s sports centre at Nanclares de la Oca (Alava). Furthermore, this prison has several open-air yards that have no benches or ledges to provide inmates with somewhere to sit other than on the ground, with this circumstance also being observed at many other prisons. It should also be noted that not all the prisons have open-air facilities that provide shelter against the inclemency of the weather, and this situation should be remedied. Lack of sports monitors The biggest problem at present, however, is the lack of sufficient staff for organising these activities, largely in the form of sports monitors, as is the case at Albocásser prison (Castellón). During their time in prison, 349. During the time they spend in prison, offenders can perform paid work in the prison’s manufacturing workshops (carpentry, dressmaking, printing, etc.) or in the so-called paid duties or “destinos retribuidos” (laundry, kitchen, prison shop, maintenance, cleaning, etc.). As regards the former, the prisons visited have workshops — supervised by the prison authorities directly or through sub­ contracted firms —, in which those inmates who so request may perform paid work, according to a special arrangement for employment in prisons referred to as “relación laboral especial penitenciaria”. The current economic crisis has also had its impact on prisons, which means that with a few exceptions, such as at Alcázar de San Juan (Ciudad Real) or Picassent-Cumplimiento (Valencia), where the levels of occupation are very high, as there are not enough jobs for all the inmates who so request, there is a system of precedence, which gives rise to complaints from those inmates on the waiting-list. inmates can perform paid work 146 THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN