ANNUAL REPORT 2019-OMBUDSMANNATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM 3.2 PRILEP PRISON The visit to the Prilep Prison was conducted on December 18 and 19, 2019, in cooperation with external associates: a psychiatrist from the Psychiatric Association of the Republic of Macedonia, a social worker from the Association of Social Workers of the City of Skopje, as well as representatives of the Association for Criminal Law and Criminology and the Association of Young Lawyers. 3.2.1. General data According to the level of security, the degree of restriction of freedom and the types of treatment applied to convicts Prilep Prison is a correctional-penitentiary institution of semi-open type, in which the primary security is the physical security exercised by members of the Security Department. However, by the new Law on Execution of Sanctions, published in the Official Gazette on 21.05.2019, it is envisaged that the CPI Prilep Prison will be transferred to Prilep Correctional - Penitentiary Institution within one year from the day this Law enters into force, due to which also during the visit construction activities were in progress and the detention unit of the Prison did not function. 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 CPI Prilep the following categories of persons are accommodated: 118