17. Taking measures to ensure appropriate heating for more than 4 hours a day, taking into account the climate of the area where the institution is located. 18. Taking measures to ensure drainage for airing space and covering parts of the airing space to guarantee that such activity is not prevented by rain or snowfall or high temperatures. 19. Taking measures to assess carefully and with priority the award of good conduct allowances and special leaves, by making a clear and adequate verification of the assessment and the credibility of the person who claims he is entitled to the leave and he/she has been denied. “Ali Demi” IECD - Dated 15.05.2015 This was the periodic monitoring visit of the Ombudsman at “Ali Demi��� IECD, Tirana for the year 2015 was conducted in conformity with the monitoring procedure of NPM, and in a very good spirit of cooperation. The scope of the visit was the collection of information regarding the rights, conditions and treatment of detainees/prisoners at the institution, and the verification of implementation of the recommendations made by the Ombudsman during the most recent visit to this institution delivered through letter with No. K4/I10-2 Prot., dated 15.05.2014, with topic: “It is hereby recommended the improvement of conditions and treatment of prisoners at “Ali Demi” IECD. In the framework of restructuring Penitentiary Institutions, “Ali Demi” IECD currently operates as a special institution for the treatment of female detainees and prisoners. No copy of the order was available neither at the institution, nor in the official website of the GDP where “Ali Demi” IECD continued to be classified as a common security prison, with a special sector for female detainees with children up to 3 years old. Furthermore, in the website of DPB, the official capacity of “Ali Demi” IECD is 80 persons (versus the capacity of 148 persons declared by the director of the prison during the preliminary meeting. On the monitoring day, there were 69 detainees and 41 prisoners at the institution, respectively set in the pretrial detention sector and prison sector. Two women were pregnant, respectively 5 and 3 months. There were no children treated in a day care. In the special care sector, there were two persons with psychiatric disorders, meanwhile a total of 11 persons with mental health issues were treated at the institution. In addition, two minors and two girls aged 18 – 21 years old were treated at the institution, accommodated in the same room, as well as 5 foreign citizens. From the information gathered on the spot, while conducting confidential interviews, without witnesses, with the women deprived of liberty and with the staff of the institution, as well as through verification of documents, objects, equipment and facilities, it resulted that measures had been taken to fulfill the recommendations made in the letter mentioned above, but three recommendations have not been implemented yet. As per above, in the end of the monitoring report, the following was recommended: 30

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