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The District Prison in Novi Sad shall ensure that detainees spend their spare time during the day
(in the morning and in the afternoon) outside of their dormitories, in communal rooms with
other detainees, unless they have been segregated from them under court orders.
The District Prison in Novi Sad shall remove dampness from the walls in all dormitories and
whitewash the walls for sanitation purposes.
The District Prison in Novi Sad shall provide detainees with lockers for their personal
belongings.
The District Prison in Novi Sad shall provide a designated day room in the closed unit, with
sufficient chairs and tables and with access to radio and television programmes.
The District Prison in Novi Sad shall provide the required amount of space per convict at the
closed unit, so that each convict has minimum eight cubic metres and four square metres of space
at his disposal.
The District Prison in Novi Sad shall provide the convicts placed at the closed unit with sufficient
lockers for their personal belongings.
The District Prison in Novi Sad shall not put smokers and non-smokers in the same room.
The District Prison in Novi Sad shall undertake all available measures and activities to influence
convicts to keep good personal hygiene and maintain the rooms where they stay in a sanitary
condition and the facility shall enable this by providing the necessary products and equipment.
The District Prison in Novi Sad shall replace the worn-out sanitation fixtures and fittings in the
sanitation facilities and the communal bathrooms.
The District Prison in Novi Sad shall visibly place menus in the dining room not later than on
the last day of the week in respect of the following week.
The District Prison in Novi Sad shall allow persons deprived of liberty to purchase items from
the canteen twice a week, it being understood that this cannot be done on two consecutive days,
without any restrictions concerning the types of products they may purchase. The District Prison
in Novi Sad shall fit the communal areas with refrigerators for persons deprived of liberty to
keep any perishable food they bought from the canteen.
Searches of visitors at the District Prison in Novi Sad shall be conducted in accordance with the
applicable regulations, in a manner which respect the personal dignity of visitors and protects
their personal belongings.
The District Prison in Novi Sad shall undertake measures without delay to ensure better
coverage of the facility with video surveillance. Any areas under video surveillance shall be
visibly marked as such.
The District Prison in Novi Sad shall undertake measures without delay to equip the rooms used
for placement of persons deprived of liberty with sound alarms to alert the guards in the event
of any incidents.
Although the Law on Enforcement of Penal Sanctions does not provide for mandatory
photographing of injuries sustained during incidents, the practice of taking photographs which
has been implemented by the District Prison in Novi Sad has been shown to be very useful both
in disciplinary proceedings against convicts and as a form of protection if convicts dispute the
origin of injuries sustained in connection with an incident. Furthermore, according to security
officers and the warden, photographs also provide protection for the staff of the Security
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