ANNUAL REPORT 2019-OMBUDSMANNATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM 3.1 PENITENTIARY-CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION SHTIP The visit to the Shtip Penitentiary was conducted on September 12, 2019, in cooperation with external associates including: forensic scientist from the Institute of Forensic Medicine, Criminology and Medical Deontology, social worker from the Association of Social Workers of the City of Skopje, and a representative from the Association of Young Lawyers. 3.1.1. General data According to the level of security, the degree of restriction of freedom and the types of treatment applied to convicts, CPI Shtip is a penitentiary institution of closed type in which there is a high degree of physical and material security, and according to the “Decision on the distribution of convicts and the juveniles in the penitentiary-correctional and educational-correctional institutions and the detainees in the detention units of the penitentiary-correctional institutions” in the penitentiary the following categories of persons are accommodated: 108 • Male persons - repeat offenders, sentenced to over 6 months in prison, that is, when the rest of the sentence after the calculated detention is over 6 months, from the area of the basic courts: Berovo, Vinica, Delchevo, Kochani, Radovish, Sveti Nikole, Strumica and Shtip; • Male persons - primary, sentenced to 3 years in prison, that is, when the rest of