punishment,follow up on them, and elaborate recommendations aimed at eradicating these factors.1 To this end, in the reporting period, the Special Preventive Group visited the following establishments: 37 visits to 8 penitentiary establishments2; 12 visits to 5 psychiatric establishments; 50 visits to 50 Police Stations; 26 visits to 22 TDIs; there were 8 focus group meetings with lawyers and NGOs working in the regions of Georgia. 37 visits to 37 small family type homes for children. 2 visits to 2 Boarding houses for persons with disabilities; 3 joint operations related to returning migrants from the EU countries were monitored. During their 2018 visits, members of the Special Preventive group were able to move around the facility without any impediments by the administration. On June 26, 2018, the National Preventive Mechanism presented its 2017 Annual Report;3 During the reporting period, the National Preventive Mechanism prepared and published a visit after report on the penitentiary institution N6;4 LEPL Tbilisi Public School N202 - Boarding School for Blind Children5 And a special report - And a special report - ''The Impact of Prison Conditions on Prisoners' health'',6 which Concerns the health risk factors of prisoners and includes recommendations for the elimination of these risk factors. The National Preventive Mechanism applies considerable efforts towards the fulfilment of its recommendations; it maintains a constant dialogue with state bodies and is always oriented towards the effective implementation of its recommendations. In its 2017 parliamentary report, the Public Defender of Georgia, within the mandate of the National Preventive Mechanism, issued 65 recommendations to the penitentiary system, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and psychiatric establishments. 10 recommendations have been fulfilled; 16 recommendations have been fulfilled partially and 39 recommendations have not been fulfilled. Out of the 24 recommendations made by the Public Defender to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2018, 10 recommendations were reflected in the Resolution of the Parliament of Georgia on the 2017 Report of the Public Defender of Georgia on the Situation of Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms in Georgia. 17 recommendations out of the 34 recommendations made to the penitentiary system, and 9 recommendations out of the 16 recommendations made to the psychiatric establishments, were reflected in the resolution. 1 UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Twelfth session Geneva, 15-19 November 2010, The approach of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture to the concept of prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, available at: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/699284/files/CAT_OP_12_6-EN.pdf [last seen:06.06.19]. 2 Penitentiary Establishments N2, N3, N5, N6, N8, N11, N16 and N17. 3 Available at: <http://www.ombudsman.ge/res/docs/2019040513262313034.pdf> [last seen: 10.06.19] 4 Available at: <http://www.ombudsman.ge/res/docs/2019040410062929010.pdf> [last seen: 10.06.19] 5 Available at: <http://www.ombudsman.ge/res/docs/2019042212301126155.pdf> [Last Seen: 10.06.19] 6 Available at: http://www.ombudsman.ge/res/docs/2019060318003373268.pdf [last seen: 10.06.19].