the letter; d) the recipient of the letter; and e) the number of pages. Both copies should be signed by the prisoner and the social worker; one copy should be given to the prisoner and the other should stay with the social worker. Personnel of the Penitentiary Establishments ● In 2019 and 2020, conduct training sessions on professional burn-out for each staff member of penitentiary establishments; ● In 2019, take all the measures for the remuneration of overtime for each staff member of penitentiary establishments; and ● In 2019, take all the measures to ensure that each staff member can use holidays fully. 3. THE SYSTEM OF THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS In 2017, the Public Defender, for improving safeguards against torture and other ill-treatment by police, made 12 recommendations to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1 proposal to the Parliament of Georgia and 1 recommendation to the Government of Georgia. Out of the 12 recommendations made to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 4 recommendations have been fulfilled; 3 recommendations have been fulfilled partially; and, 5 recommendations have not been fulfilled. The proposal made to the Parliament of Georgia has not been fulfilled.128 As a result of the fulfilment of the Public Defender’s recommendations by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, today there are far more temporary detention isolators (hereinafter “TDI”) in the country with medical units than in 2017.129 Significant changes concerned the statutes of TDIs which determined the obligation of a doctor employed in a TDI to notify the prosecutor’s office of Georgia about injuries found on the body of a person brought to TDI when she/he suspects torture or other ill-treatment. It should be positively noted that, since 1 July 2018, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has increased salaries by GEL 250 for 14, 000 employees working on operative issues. The Public Defender’s Office welcomes renovation works conducted to improve infrastructure and living conditions in TDIs in 2018. It should also be noted, however, that the conditions existing in TDIs are still unacceptable considering the enforcement of administrative detention up to 15 days. In this 128 The Government of Georgia was given a recommendation to increase the budget of the Legal Aid Service for increasing the human resources of the service. According to the Ministry of Finance, the service has not spent more than 1 million GEL the previous year and therefore their budget was not increased for 2019. 129 As of 2018, only in 15 TDIs out of 29 had a medical centre. During 2018, medical centres opened in 8 TDIs (TDIs of Mtskheta, Poti, Sagarejo, Zestaponi, Chkhorotsku, Akhaltsikhe, Khashuri and Kvareli). 49