9.2. Detainees in penal institutions at the time of the visit; with 624 detainees actually staying at the Prison, the facility was operating at 119.08% of its capacity. Despite the fact that shortly before the visit, some renovation works had been carried out in the Prison, all in all, the physical conditions observed by the visiting delegation gave serious cause for concern. In numerous cells, the number of detainees exceeded the cells’ holding capacity, so the space and volume per person were significantly below the minimum living space prescribed by the Hungarian and international regulations. I therefore asked the Director General of the Hungarian Prison Service to take action in order to assure the living space prescribed by law151 – in accordance with the international standards152 – for the detainees held in the Prison. I also initiated that the warden take measures in order to improve the detention conditions. Prison cell in the Márianosztra Strict and Medium Regime Prison Despite regular pest controls, bedbug infestation continued to be a problem. I requested that the warden take action to ensure effective pest control. It was worrisome that if security isolation was carried out in the isolation ward, on each of those occasions, this action was executed with the use of some mobility limitation device (i.e. handcuffs and belt with handcuff 151 152 Pursuant to Section 121(1) of the Decree of the Minister of Justice No. 16/2014 (XII. 19.) on the Detailed Rules of Confinement Replacing Prison Sentencing, Confinement, Pre-trial Detention and Disciplinary Fines, “the number of detainees allowed to be placed in a cell or a living quarter shall be determined so that each detainee would have six cubic meters of volume and (…) in the case of multiple occupancy, at least four square meters of living space per person”, and according to Subsection (2), “when calculating the living space, the area occupied by the sanitary facilities (…) must be subtracted from the floor area of the cell or the living quarter”. According to Clauses 9 and 10 of the CPT’s provisions for personal living space in prison establishments [CPT/Inf (2015) 44], the minimum standards should be at least four square metres of living space per person in a multiple-occupancy cell excluding the area taken up by the sanitary units. 69