3 VISIT TO PENITENTIARY-CORRECTIONAL AND EDUCATIONALCORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND ESTABLISHED SITUATIONS During 2019, visits were made to the Shtip Penitentiary, the Open Unit of the Kumanovo Prison in Kriva Palanka, the Prilep Prison, the Arresting Unit at the Clinical Centre Skopje, the Ohrid Prison, as well as the Tetovo Educational - Correctional Institution, which is located in the Ohrid Prison. The visits were made as unannounced, based on a previously prepared visit plan, in accordance with the Methodology and the Rulebook on the manner of conducting prevention from torture and other types of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Thereby, the visits were made in cooperation with external associates and experts from several areas. On each of the visits, the team of the National Preventive Mechanism especially emphasized the ban on sanctions against any person or organization for submitting information to the NPM, whether they are false or true, and it was emphasized that for the submitted information no person or organization must not be harmed in any other way. www. ombudsman.mk 107