38 During 2013, in accordance with the recommendations113 made by the NPM, certain activities have been carried out in order to improve the accommodation conditions in institutions for the execution of criminal sanctions, and accommodation facilities in some of them have been adapted (Penal Correctional Institution in Sremska Mitrovica, District Prison in Čačak and District Prison in Negotin). In addition, the Penal Correctional Institution for women and the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions have taken some measures to improve the living conditions of female convicts – there is an ongoing implementation of the project of renovation and construction and of the mentioned Penal Correctional Institution, and the funds required for the elaboration of the project documentation are foreseen in the financial plan for 2014. Because of the complete inadequacy of the accommodation capacities of District Prison in Pančevo, due to which the relocation of the prison from the existing building was recommended, conditions for commencement of works on construction of a new prison in Pančevo were provided. In 2014, several accommodation facilities of Juvenile Penal Correctional Institution in Valjevo shall be adapted. In the coming period, NPM shall monitor through control visits, what planned activities aimed at improving accommodation conditions are implemented. The biggest problem of the existing system of execution of criminal sanctions in Serbia, represent over-dimensioned and overcrowded penal correctional institutions in Sremska Mitrovica, Požarevac and Niš. In the coming period, special attention has to be paid to improvement of the accommodation capacities in major prisons and reduction of overcrowding by transferring inmates to other institutions for the execution of criminal sanctions, especially to the recently built Penal Correctional Institution in Belgrade, which was half-full for a long period of time. A large number of persons serving prison sentences, who are placed in closed wards, are not permitted to spend free time during the day outside of dormitory, in the common areas with other convicts. 114 Abovementioned practice is neither discontinued in the recently built Penal Correctional Institution in Belgrade, whose blocks do not have common areas, so that the convicted persons are locked in their cells all the time (except for about an hour in the open air). A significant deficiency represents a fact that a practice of the measure of increased oversight is carried out as a form of exclusion, and in many cases of isolation, i.e. it is reduced solely to the removal of persons on whom the measure of exclusion from the ordinary regime was imposed – implying closing / locking into the rooms – dormitories. In this way oversight of those persons is reduced. It is necessary to revise the methods of enforcement of the increased oversight measure so that during the execution of this measure the immediate attention of the prison services with regard to the persons on whom the measure is being imposed is enhanced, and especially to intensify both group and individual treatment activities of the correctional counselors. A significant number of convicted persons who were divided into educational groups V1 and V2 and placed in a closed ward, usually spend less than 2 hours a day in the open air as foreseen and prescribed by the relevant regulations. In most penal correctional institutions there are no separate, indoor premises for physical or other free-time activities, nor special rooms for visits of close persons. 113 Recommendation No. 12-1949/13 from 11 July 2013; NPM report on the visit to District Prison in Negotin, No. 71-98/12; NPM report on the visit to District Prison in Čačak, No. 71-163/12; NPM report on the visit to District Prison in Zaječar, No. 71-48/12; NPM report on the visit to District Prison in Pančevo, No. 71-28/13; NPM report on the visit to District Prison in NPM report on the visit to Penal Correctional Institution for women in Požarevac, No. 71-66/13. 114 e.g. in the Seventh Pavilion of the Penal Correctional Institution Požarevac-Zabela and the Second Pavilion of the Penal Correctional Institution in Niš.