National Preventive Mechanism Maintaining a clean environment and personal hygiene is a key factor for ensuring a prisoner’s dignity and health. Hence, all adequate measures have to be taken so that the prisoner has regular access to showers and maintains his/ her personal hygiene. After the monitoring, it was revealed that in those temporary detention isolators where there are shower cabins, prisoners have the opportunity to shower once a week. Nevertheless the situation is problematic in those temporary detention isolators where there are no shower facilities. These isolators are in Zestafoni, Lentekhi, Dusheti and Akhalkalaki. Positively has to be assessed the fact that cells are cleaned twice a day. In all of the temporary detention isolators prisoners are on the following food ratio plan: 300g bread, 20g sugar, 2 tea bags, 100g pasta, a small can of beef meat and one sachet of instant soup. It has to be stated that the provided meal plan is not adequate and is insufficient, as a prisoner can be in the isolator for more than 3 months and his next of kin might not have the means to provide him with parcels and additional food. In this regard, Tbilisi N 1 and N 2 Temporary Detention Isolators are the exception as prisoners are catered for by the prison cafeteria and have more nutritious and diverse meal plans. Recommendation to the Parliament of Georgia: 90 Day Administrative detention to be reduced to 15 Days; Recommendation to the Government of Georgia: To construct, based on the regional principle, adequate administrative detention establishments and facilities, fully adapted to a prisoner’s prolonged detention. Recommendation to the Ministry of Internal Affairs: To make pertinent changes to Decree N 108 of the Minister of Internal Affairs of 1 February 2010 on “Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs Temporary Detention Isolator Bylaw, Isolator Internal Regulation and Isolator Activity Regulation Additional Instruction Approval”, so that the following is ensured: persons who are detained for more than 24 hours have the right to take walk in the fresh air in a specially designated area, as well as be provided with the opportunity to regularly shower; ensure that the official space, in the in multi-occupancy cells, allocated per inmate is not less than 4 m² or, in case of single occupancy cells, 7 m² of living space. Recommendations to the Head of the Unit for Human Rights Protection and Monitoring: that all detainees in temporary detention isolators are given individual, appropriate beds to sleep and that the wooden planks used for sleeping are removed; that in all detention isolators an adequate heating system is set up and installed, that the cells have adequate lighting and ventilation, including access to natural light; that in all temporary detention isolators toilets are isolated allowing for privacy during usage; that persons in temporary detention facilities have full, nourishing meal plan three times a day. www.ombudsman.ge NPM Report