During a visit to one prison a 70-year old inmate was seen walking on crutches after a stroke suffered from in prison, who as a consequence required assistance of third parties in everyday routine activities. Due to a limited number of places in the Chronic Diseases Department in the Czarne Prison he was waiting for a very long time to be admitted there. Despite interventions made by the facility director and repeated requests to move the inmate to Czarne due to his health condition, it was impossible because the waiting list of inmates with equally serious health conditions was very long. In the NMPT opinion, a solution to be taken account of by the Penitentiary Service in order to meet the needs of inmates suffering from chronic physical disorders is to increase the number of hospital departments such as the one in Czarne to be located within prisons. A poor offer of cultural and educational activities addressed to the inmates of pretrial detention facilities CPT calls Polish authorities to take actions necessary to develop programmes of such activities for those temporarily arrested as well as for prisoners. The aim should be to ensure that every inmate can spend a reasonable part of day (eight or more hours) outside the cell while engaging in various activities (work, education, vocational training, sport, etc.)97. The offer of activities addressed to inmates is very poor. Inmates of pre-trial detention centres may spend their time in cells and in day centres, they can watch TV, read books from a library, they can play board games and table football. In practice, interviews with inmates during a visit revealed that they spend most of their time in cells and leave them only to take a walk, which is the most attractive form of activity for them. The facilities may organize various interesting meetings, concerts or performances, but such events are only incidental. The problem of poor cultural and educational offer for temporarily detained individuals was diagnosed by the NMPT already in 2014 and presented in a thematic report concerning the situation 97 44 CPT Report on a visit to Poland, CPT/Inf (2014) 21, paragraph 43; CPT Report on a visit to Poland, CPT/Inf (2018) 30, paragraph 73. PART IV – Situation in places of detention