37 suitable room for searches, where persons would be searched with full respect for their privacy and dignity. The facility has put in place measures to enable persons placed in closed units to take examinations outside of the facility. In the absence of a dental surgery, the facility has arranged for dental services to be provided to its inmates at the Medical Centre of Šabac. The food served to inmates is now more varied. Acting in compliance with the NPM’s recommendations, the District Prison in Novi Sad now allows the convicts placed in the closed ward to receive visits once every two months in a designated room. The room is equipped and adapted for receiving visits by persons close to inmates. Overall, the number of disciplinary proceedings, which used to be institutes for even the slightest breaches of discipline, has been reduced. The recommendation to photograph all injuries sustained by persons deprived of liberty – both those sustained during extraordinary events and those that could be the result of the use of force – has been complied with. This has afforded persons deprived of liberty the same level of protection in cases where their right to bodily integrity is jeopardised by the use of excessive force. Juvenile Correctional Facility in Kruševac In June 2014, the NPM’s team visited the Juvenile Correctional Facility in Kruševac. The Facility was issued 30 recommendations for eliminating the identified shortcomings, of which 13 have been implemented, while 17 have not. The Juvenile Correctional Facility in Kruševac is the only facility in the Republic of Serbia where juvenile corrections are enforced. As already explained, the fundamental issue is the fact that the Facility is the only institution of its kind in Serbia, which means it is constantly overcrowded and this creates fertile ground for informal systems which undermine the effects of correctional sessions. This also prejudices the principle that persons should serve their sentences as close to their place of residence as possible, thus making regular contact with family members and close persons more difficult. In the course of 2013, the Facility commissioned eight new pavilions in two complexes. However, the intensive work unit, the open unit, the intake unit and the corrections unit are in a state of disrepair. Due to a lack of funding, the Facility has been unable to renovate those units and to provide a designated room for visits by persons close to the inmates. One of the recommendations made by the Protector of Citizens was to provide adequate intensive, varied and comprehensive correctional sessions. Namely, juvenile offenders placed in the juvenile correctional facility are not provided with intensive, varied and comprehensive correctional sessions suited to the wards’ developmental needs, with multiple educational activities and programmes aimed at correcting offending behaviour. Furthermore, due to a shortage of corrections officers, the correctional groups tend to be too large, which makes sound correctional work with the wards all the more difficult. A particularly grave concern was the inability to provide proper educational and correctional sessions to inmates at the Intensive Correctional Treatment Department (a separate unit outside the perimeter of the Facility, surrounded by high walls) due to poor conditions of accommodation, the lack of educational and cultural material and insufficient number of corrections officers. It has also been found that the originally designed corrections programme for the wards of this Department is not revised on a regular basis. An analysis of the medical documentation relating to two cases in which the use of force was involved and direct examinations of the wards by a forensic medicine expert of the NPM team revealed that bodily harm was not described in detail in the medical sheets of the wards concerned relating to the initial and follow-up medical examinations conducted after the use of force. From the identified difference in the number, pattern and localisation of injuries caused to those persons it could be concluded that the medical examinations had not been done thoroughly and that the relevant sheets in the medical documentation did not list all existing injuries. Furthermore, the number, scope, localisation, pattern and nature of the injuries sustained by the