37 In 2013, a new practice has been introduced into the system of execution of detention measures, – following the creation of a separate room for the visit of the spouse, children and other close relatives, a detainee is allowed conjugal visits, without the presence of the prison staff or other inmates. It is encouraging that after numerous complaints of detainees, the District Prison in Belgrade set up a special room for visits of a spouse, children and other close relatives, and that in the previous period, on the basis of a decision of the competent court, a detainee who spent more than five years in detention, was granted conjugal visits, without the presence of the prison staff or other inmates. GENERAL RECOMMENDATION FOR ELIMINATION OF IDENTIFIED DEFICIENCIES It is necessary to improve the existing dilapidated accommodation capacities of detention units, i.e. to align them with current regulations and standards. Detainees should be permitted to spend their free time during the day outside the cell, in the common areas with other detainees with whom they are not prohibited to contact on the basis of a court decision. Detainees should be allowed to work, and to be involved in social and cultural activities. More attention should be paid to ensure that the detainees who have not been previously convicted are not placed in the same dormitory with detainees with prior convictions, and to place detainees depending on the type of criminal offence they are accused of. Particular attention should be paid to avoid placement of juvenile detainees in the same room with adult ones. Smokers should not be placed in the same room with the non-smokers. 6.3. Execution of criminal sanctions During 2013 NPM visited 11 institutions for execution of criminal sanctions (Institutions)111. In 2013 three reports on the visits carried out in 2012 and five reports on the visits conducted in 2013 were made, while at the beginning of 2014 one report on the visit carried out at the end of 2013 was made. In these reports a total number of 178 recommendations were sent. From that number, the authorities have acted upon 90 recommendations, partially upon 46, and did not act upon 42 recommendations. During visits conducted in 2013, as well as during the previous period, numerous deficiencies related to the accommodation and other living conditions of the prisoners were observed. Accommodation and other living conditions of sentenced criminal and misdemeanor offenders in certain detention facilities are still not in compliance with the applicable standards. In spite of the decrease of the total number of persons who are serving prison sentences on the basis of granted amnesties, performed adaptations of certain accommodation facilities, and visible efforts of the Institution for Execution of Criminal Sanctions and the prison wardens to improve the work organization, major penal-correctional institutions112 are still overcrowded, a large number of premises is still dilapidated, so we can only confirm that they do not meet the material and other living conditions prescribed by the applicable standards. Efforts aimed at improving capacities intended for the accommodation of sentenced criminal and misdemeanor offenders are encouraging. In 2013 s​​ everal adaptations and reconstructions of accommodation facilities were made. 111 There are 29 prisons in the Republic of Serbia. 112 Penal Correctional Institution in Sremska Mitrovica, Penal Correctional Institution Požarevac-Zabela and Penal Correctional Institution in Niš.