37 misdemeanour offenders to engage them in working activities. There is a need to further intensify active, individual and collective treatment work of teachers with convicts. It is necessary to improve the system of subsequent classification of convicts so as to create possibilities to transfer convicts to more favourable correctional group due to their proper conduct, and thereby reduce a large number of convicts released from prison directly from closed departments. It was found that a large number of persons serving their prison terms, detained in the closed departments (of cell type) were not allowed to spend their available time outside their sleeping room in common rooms with other fellow convicts during a day. In the course of the reporting period, and in line with the NPM recommendation, some security procedures in the institutions were improved to the certain extent. Namely, in PCI Požarevac – Zabela convicted persons were forced to upon leaving their cells and entering the corridor of the pavilion stand against the wall, facing the wall, with hands crossed on their backs and heads bent towards the floor. In line with the recommendations of the NPM, the Institution ceased to use this practice and introduced new security procedures which do not violate dignity of convicts, in the described way. Likewise, acting in line with the recommendation of the NPM, the Administration for the Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions sent instructions to all institutions about the way to conduct search and other procedures towards persons coming to visit persons deprived of their liberty, in a way to respect their dignity and preserve items and personal integrity of visitors. Also, body cavity search should be exclusively done by prison staff, with no presence of other persons, fully respecting mental and physical integrity of visitors. The reporting period was characterized by a problem in the operations of the institutions caused by insufficient number of staff, which adversely impacted on the overall status and fulfilment of the guaranteed rights of the persons deprived of their liberty. However, a positive example is the fact that Administration for the Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions, in line with the NPM recommendations, undertook activities in order to recruit around 40 new officers to be employed in the Security Service of the DP Novi Sad, taking into account that due to the lack of staff, the operations of this institutions were made more difficult. Alike in the previous annual reports, the NPM also indicated on this occasion to the circumstance that the enforcement of the juvenile prison sentence or correctional measure by sending to correctional home was exclusively enforced in one single institution (in Valjevo, and in Kruševac, respectively), where a large number of persons were accommodated. Such a situation benefitted to the creation of informal system which diminished the effects of the treatment work. This way, the principle to serve the sentence in the institution closest to the place of residence is jeopardized, which then makes the contact of these persons with their family and close persons more difficult. Serving the prison sentence in the institution closest to the place of residence is neither enabled to women, for they are exclusively placed in the PCI for women in Požarevac. In the previous reports, the NPM used to draw the attention to numerous deficiencies in the provision of health-care to persons serving their prison sentence. Medical check-ups upon admission to prison are mainly approximate and are not based on a consolidated protocol. The aforementioned is in the most of the cases caused by insufficient number of medical staff, primarily doctors, both general practitioners and specialized doctors. The situation in the Specialized Prison Hospital in Belgrade is particularly worrisome. In the course of 2015, 5 doctors employed in the Prison Hospital retired. The Administration for the Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions resolved this understaff problem by new recruitments, but the problem related to insufficient number of doctors working in the Hospital still remains. Besides the aforementioned, the problem related to the use of necessary drugs and therapies was not resolved, neither did bad practices that non-medical staff distribute drugs and provide therapy. In addition, it is still common that non-medical staff members are present during the