2016 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE not ensured in the institution’s sanitary facilities, and their equipment is either dysfunctional or damaged; personal privacy in using the toilet is nor ensured; there is no guarantee of the possibility for drying one’s clothing and footwear in a separate permanently open drier room; there is a shortage of clothes racks and tables, and the soft supplies provided are of poor quality. 2. Concerning the ensuring of security. Cell-type premises are in short supply, which forces to keep the convicts in a temporary detention cell for several days that is not adapted for long-term detention, and the fact of staying on this cell is not recorded; the number of the supervising officers is not sufficient to ensure security; and the minutes of the convicts’ distribution commission are not informative. 3. Concerning the implementation of the right of access to information and submission of appeals. The right of access to information on the procedure and conditions for serving the sentence, persons’ rights and duties and submission of proposals, requests (applications), petitions and complaints is not ensured; the employees of the unit for disabled convicts are not trained to deal with individuals with special needs. 4. Concerning the provision of health care. The persons’ medical histories lack entries and sig­ natures confirming the consent with the health check-up, examination by a doctor and prescribed treatment, the number of jobs in the health care service is non-compliant with the number of jobs set out in relevant standards; and there was no license and permit/hygiene passport for the provisions of services of a family doctor and a psychiatrist, and the internal medicine doctor was delivering services not provided for in the license. under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania and Alytus Correction House. The majority of the recommendations have been implemented (12) or are being implemented (2). The Prison Department has informed that in 2016 the number of officers’ positions at Alytus Correction House was increased from 187 to 206, but attempts to fill in all vacant positions faced difficulties: as of 1 December 2016, only 169 out of 206 positions had been filled in. With a view to increasing the attractiveness of the officers’ jobs, the position of a supervisor classified as category 3 of level C with the lowest salary was eliminated (the institution had 61 such positions), and the position of a senior supervisor in category 4 of level C was introduced (64 such positions). Also a project for the conversion of the 600-bed dormitory into a residential building with cells was prepared (the works with the budget of EUR 100 000 are to start in 2017); and the heads of the places of detention were requested to take the Seimas Ombudsmen’s recommendations into consideration and provide conditions for convicts who were insolvent due to actions beyond their control to submit proposals, requests, petitions or complaints to national and municipal authorities, non-governmental organisations or international institutions. The Alytus Correction House Administration has drawn up a plan of measures for implementing the Seimas Ombudsmen’s recommendations, which have been implemented: a leisure room has been installed in the unit of disabled convicts, and a pergola with a table and benches have been built in the courtyard; the stairclimbers available on the stairway are in use, rails have been installed in the hallways and a supply of wheelchairs, walkers and handrails for the disabled has been received; the damaged and dysfunctional fixtures of the sanitary facilities have been replaced and On completing the inspection at the imprisonment institution, 14 recommendations were provided to the heads of the Prison Department 21