–7– APPENDIX Examples of other factors to be taken into consideration when assessing detention conditions in prison State of repair and cleanliness - Cells, including furniture, should be in a decent state of repair and every effort should be made to keep the living areas clean and hygienic. - Any infestation with vermin needs to be tackled vigorously. - Inmates should be provided with the necessary personal hygiene products and cleaning materials. Access to natural light, ventilation and heating - All living accommodation for prisoners (both single- and multiple-occupancy cells) should have access to natural light as well as to artificial lighting which is sufficient for reading purposes. - Equally, there needs to be sufficient ventilation to ensure a constant renewal of the air inside the cells. - Cells should be adequately heated. Sanitary facilities - Each cell should possess a toilet and a washbasin as a minimum. In multiple-occupancy cells the sanitary facilities should be fully partitioned (i.e. up to the ceiling). - In those few prisons where no in-cell sanitary facilities are available, the authorities must ensure that prisoners have ready access to the toilet whenever needed. Today, no prisoner in Europe should be obliged to “slop out”, a practice that is degrading both for the prisoners and for the staff members who have to supervise such a procedure. Outdoor exercise - The CPT considers that every prisoner should be offered a minimum of one hour of outdoor exercise every day. Outdoor exercise yards should be spacious and suitably equipped to give inmates a real opportunity to exert themselves physically (e.g., to practise sports); they should also be equipped with a means of rest (e.g., a bench) and a shelter against inclement weather. Purposeful activities - The CPT has long recommended that prisoners should be offered a range of varied purposeful activities (work, vocation, education, sport and recreation). To this end, the CPT has stated since the 1990s that the aim should be for prisoners – both sentenced and on remand – to spend eight hours or more a day outside their cells engaged in such activities, and that for sentenced prisoners the regime should be even more favourable.