Places visited by the National Preventive Mechanism in 2011 programmes: creative activities, tournaments, music concerts, exhibitions, meetings with interesting people, and thematic events. However, during individual interviews with the Mechanism the majority of prisoners indicated that the cultural and educational offer is very poor (Uherce Mineralne Prison, Sieradz Prison, Olsztyn Pre-Trial Detention Centre, Nowy Wiśnicz Prison). In the Kluczbork and Sieradz Prisons, the reason for a limited offer was the fact that recreation rooms were transformed into cells. The National Preventive Mechanism recalls that according to CPT position, as expressed in point 91 of the Report on the visit to Poland in 200463, the almost total lack of constructive activities is unacceptable. As stressed by the Committee in previous visit reports, the aim should be to ensure that all prisoners, including those on remand, are able to spend a reasonable part of the day outside their cells engaged in purposeful activities of a varied nature (work, preferably with a vocational value; education; sport; recreation/association). In the Płock Prison, the hours of sports activities coincided with the hours of outdoor walk, which forced the choice between the right to a walk and to other types of activities. In the opinion of the National Preventive Mechanism, the above arrangement was incompliant with the legal provisions in force. It should be noted that the Executive Penal Code holds both these rights of persons deprived of liberty as equal (Articles 102(6) and 112 of the Executive Penal Code). However, in practice the Płock Prison failed to respect the equality of these two rights. Moreover, in Uherce Mineralne Prison, juvenile convicts were not allowed to have any RTV equipment in their cells, because they had to “deserve” it. In the opinion of the administration, a TV set in the cell would hamper their participation in cultural and educational activities. In the opinion of the National Preventive Mechanism, when an establishment does not offer frequent and regular activities and workshops to prisoners, there are no grounds (unless provided for in the law) to limit juvenile convicts’ privileges that other prisoners can make use of, in this case the possession of RTV equipment in their cells. Walking yards in Giżycko Pre-Trial Detention Centre and in Trzebinia Prison were not equipped with any training equipment. According to Rule 21 of Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners64, every prisoner who is not employed in outdoor work shall have at least one hour of suitable exercise in the open air daily if the weather permits. Young prisoners, and others of suitable age and physique, shall receive physical and recreational training during the period of exercise. To this end space, installations and equipment should be provided. In response to the Report by the Mechanism, Directors of Uherce Mineralne Prison, Kluczbork Prison and Olszyn Pre-Trial Detention Centre increased the number of cultural 63 64  CPT/Inf (2006) 11.  Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners adopted in Geneva in 1955 by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders and approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolutions 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and 2076 (LXII) of 13 May 1977. 43