phone cards, request cigarettes or forcedly take other prisoners’ cigarettes, or extort money. Other causes of conflicts may be religious beliefs, ethnicity and communication problems caused by the language barrier. The practice of transferring prisoners from one cell to another due to conflicts with cellmates is common in the facilities, which indicates that a certain number of prisoners do not feel safe in their cells. According to prisoners, if prison staff do not personally witness inter-prisoner conflict in Establishment No. 15, they may never learn about it. Inter-prisoner conflicts are resolved by "watchers". In semiopen facilities, "watchers" are divided according to regions, floors, wings and other spaces. Accordingly, the so-called "zone" issues are resolved by an informal leader, while the issues of those employed in the penitentiary establishment are regulated by a brigadier. When a case is resolved by "watchers", certain prisoners may be physically abused, degraded, expelled from the prison community or forced to move to the category of prisoners, which they believe, have a lower status. Inter-prisoner psychological violence In addition to physical violence, facilities are also characterized by forms of severe psychological violence. This problem is especially acute in semi-open institutions, where criminal subculture is quite strong. Due to the fear of repression, prisoners follow informal rules, as if they do not do so, they may be expelled from the prison community, communication with them may become unacceptable for other prisoners, which leads to the loss of dignity, status and respect. There are cases in closed facilities, when certain prisoners try to control their cellmates and psychologically abuse them. One of the prisoners misappropriated items intended for common use in Establishment No. 8. The Special Preventive Group was informed that one prisoner in the same facility was trying to control his cellmates and impose his rules. Namely, he was trying to force others to give him their cards68 so that he could decide what to buy and how to arrange the cell. As he had good contacts inside and outside the facility, prisoners were afraid of him. According to prisoners, those with limited finances are forced to be noisy in the cell in order to achieve they transfer to another cell. In similar cases, prisoners are usually first taken to an internal classification cell and then to another cell. Prisoners often change thier cells as a result of conflicts. The above is the only resource of prison staff to prevent conflicts. The monitoring showed that prisoners with mental health disorders placed together with other prisoners in Establishment No. 8. are often harassed, humiliated, abused, denied food, forced to do degrading things or even hit in head, which results in conflicts, after which, they are transferred to the de-escalation room or the safe cell. The Special Preventive Group learned that 68 A card with nominal amount of money, which is individually handed over to each convict. 39