42 Recommendations that were acted upon concerning the treatment programs in the Penal Correctional Institution in Sremska Mitrovica are a sign that the certain improvements have been made. NPM has observed that after the first visit and the recommendations made, convicted persons are now rarely kept for more than permitted 30 days in the admission department. Treatment programs are being implemented, but still with lot of difficulties, due to the overload of work and lack of personnel who is engaged in activities inside and outside of the Penal Correctional Institution. Convicted persons are being informed about all the conditions, methods and procedures concerning their rights and obligations during the execution of a prison sentence. When it comes to social support and preparation for release, there is some progress, but there is still a lack of the involvement and cooperation of certain external institutions that should provide active help and support for the convicted persons during, and especially after the execution of the sentence. As far as education and employment, during followup visits, there is also some improvement, indicated by a bigger involvement of convicted persons in various forms of training, as well as involvement in elementary and secondary vocational education. GENERAL RECOMMENDATION FOR ELIMINATION OF IDENTIFIED DEFICIENCIES It is necessary to continue activities on improving accommodation capacities in institutions for execution of criminal sanctions in accordance with the applicable standards. It is necessary to enable all persons serving prison sentences, to spend their free time during the day outside the dormitories, in the common areas with other inmates. It is necessary to further intensify active, individual and collective treatment work of the correctional counselors with convicted persons. It is necessary to improve the system of subsequent reassignment of convicts. Work of the institutions for the execution of criminal sanctions should be improved in the area of the health care, in terms of providing medical treatments, conducting medical examinations, as well as providing therapy and medicines. Persons with serious mental disorders who serve prison sentences should be dislocated from the regular prison accommodation and provided with appropriate health care services to treat their mental health condition. Health care services in institutions for the execution of criminal sanctions should be within the system of health care, i.e. under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health. It is necessary to perform regular, periodic supervision over the professional work of healthcare services in institutions for the execution of criminal sanctions. Work engagement of the persons serving prison sentences should be further enhanced in institutions for execution of criminal sanctions. It is necessary to increase the number of employees in the Treatment Service of the institutions for the execution of criminal sanctions, where their number is insufficient; it is necessary to intensify activities within the individual and group treatment work with the convicted persons; work of the correctional counselors should not be primarily reduced to administrative duties, nor should it be additionally burdened by non-custodial tasks (eg. execution of the sentence of “house arrest”). It is necessary to implement preparation programs for release from prison and establish a special release unit in which the prisoners should be prepared for life outside of prison. It is necessary to detach the Department for Oversight from the Administration for Execution of Criminal Sanctions, so that supervision over the work of the Administration for Execution of Criminal Sanctions as a whole, performs a separate organizational unit of the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration.