Report of the HRD on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2011 and educational activities in the wards. Similarly, the management of Trzebinia Prison and Giżycko Pre-Trial Detention Centre reported that in their budget plans for 2012 purchase of training equipment for walking yards was envisaged. The Director of Sieradz Prison explained that recreation rooms in the living premises are occupied only due to overpopulation, and when overpopulation drops, the original functions will be restored. The Director of Płock Prison notified the Mechanism about changes made to the internal regulations of the establishment with the effect that cultural and educational activities do not longer coincide with the walks. The National Preventive Mechanism recommended to: • Restore the original function of recreation rooms turned into cells; • Extend the offer of cultural and educational activities. k) Right to contact with the outside world and to maintain family ties The possibilities as well as conditions of executing the right to receive visits were evaluated positively by the visiting team. Nevertheless, some establishments lacked a separate room, equipped as defined in the Ordinance of the Minister of Justice of 17 October 2003 on living conditions for inmates of prisons and pre-trial detention centres65, where visits could take place without a supervisor, as provided for in Article 138 1 (3) of the Executive Penal Code, (Grójec Pre-Trial Detention Centre, Olsztyn Pre-Trial Detention Centre, Kluczbork Prison, Mysłowice Pre-Trial Detention Centre, Trzebinia Prison, Łupków Prison, Jasło Prison, Wadowice Prison, Uherce Mineralne Prison). The lack of a room which could be used to execute the reward provided for in Article 138 (3) of the Executive Penal Code makes it impossible to make use of such reward in practice. In the opinion of the National Preventive Mechanism, appropriately equipped separate rooms for visits without a supervisor should be provided for in all establishments. The National Preventive Mechanism encountered the practice and internal regulations forbidding telephone conversations with a defence counsel or a representative in the case of persons detained on remand (Grójec Pre-Trial Detention Centre, Mysłowice Pre-Trial Detention Centre, Giżycko Pre-Trial Detention Centre, Nowogard Prison, Koronowo Prison, Wadowice Prison, Sieradz Prison, Olsztyn Pre-Trial Detention Centre, Sieradz Prison, Jasło Prison). The National Preventive Mechanism repeatedly indicated the need to revoke the complete ban on telephone conversations by the detained on remand with their defence counsels or representatives – attorneys or legal advisers – in the absence of other persons, and to provide the possibility of such conversations with respect for secrecy and without the limitation of the frequency of contacts. In accordance with Article 215 1 of the Executive Penal Code, a person detained on remand has the right to contact a defence counsel or representative – an attorney or a legal adviser – in 65  Dz. U. of 2003 No 186, item 1820. 44