substantiated with explanations and reports submitted by the personnel. Prisoners practically do not participate in disciplinary proceedings.53 The practice of the application of security measures in penitentiary establishments is problematic. Decisions on visual and/or electronic surveillance are not justified. The use of the above means without appropriate justification results in interference in the right to respect for private life.54 It should be also noted that the Public Defender’s recommendation concerning increasing the term of surveillance recordings at least for ten days has not been fulfilled.55 The high security prisons are based on static security principles with a particularly restrictive, prohibitive and unconditionally strict regime. Such conditions are not conducive to positive changes in inmates’ behaviour, their rehabilitation and eventual social reintegration.56 Placing prisoners in de-escalation rooms remains problematic similar to the previous years.57 Furthermore, the recommendation of the Public Defender remains the same that it is necessary to store surveillance recordings from de-escalation rooms for at least one month in all cases. Full search of prisoners are carried out again routinely and are not based on the imminent risk assessment of prisoners.58 Furthermore the grounds for full (strip) search and body cavity searches are not clearly stipulated.59 According to the information received by the Special Preventive Group from prisoners during monitoring, full searches are still conducted in penitentiary establishments. 53 The frequent use of solitary confinement cells is problematic in some establishments. The instances of use of solitary confinement cells against prisoners with mental health problems have not been eradicated. Prisoners still claim that they are provoked and then imposed with disciplinary sanctions. 54 Report to the Ukrainian Government on the visit to Ukraine carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 1 to 10 December 2012, para. 52, available in English at: https://rm.coe.int/168069844d, (accessed 10.02.2019). 55Procedure on Surveillance and Control through Visual and/or Electronic means, as well as the Storage, Deleting and Destroying of the Recordings as approved by Order no. 35 of 19 May 2015 of the Minister of Corrections and Probation of Georgia lays down 120 hours (five days) as the minimum term of storing video recordings. 56The 2016 Report of the National preventive Mechanism of the Office of the Public Defender of Georgia, pp. 4045. 57During the application of this measure, there is no multidisciplinary intervention on the part of the establishment’s personnel to reduce and eradicate risks. Prisoners are prohibited from maintaining contacts with the outside world and they are not provided with clothes and items of personal hygiene. The environment and conditions in de-escalation rooms remain problematic. The rooms are not safe and not arranged in a way to reduce the risk of self-harm to the minimum. Besides, the recommendation of the Public Defender about introduction of the statutory limit of the term of placement of prisoners in de-escalation rooms to a maximum term of 24 hours has not been fulfilled. 58 The regulations under the statutes of penitentiary establishments determine administration of full body searches in all occasions of first arrival, temporary leave and return to the penitentiary establishment. Furthermore, based on the decision of the director or another official authorised by the director, full body search can be administered in other cases as well. 59 The 2016 Report of the National Preventive Mechanism, pp. 71-81. 28