Report on the Performance of Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2015 physicians to issue referral slips and prescriptions, but this has not been achieved by the time this Report was made. Much of the difficulties that make providing of healthcare more difficult and represent a constant source of dissatisfaction among the prisoners, but also among healthcare providers would have been avoided if prisoners’ healthcare were to be organizationally put under the competence of the Ministry of Health. This is discussed in more detail in the chapter on evaluation on the state of the rights of persons deprived of their liberty who are in the prison system. Some of the prisoners complain about the quality of food, especially vegetarian, and some about the size of the meals in certain penal institutions, which they believe to be smaller than regulations require. Several prisoners have also complained about lack of seat belts in special vehicles intended for transport of prisoners. Specifically, in the back of the special vehicle one can sit only on the side bench, without hand grips, often with one’s hands and sometimes even legs bound, so in the event of sudden braking of the vehicle or changing the direction of driving most prisoners transported that way end up on the vehicle floor by the end of the ride, and sometimes get injured. The Road Traffic Safety Act does not indicate that it is allowed to be without a seat belt in this type of vehicle, and in the Government Regulation on Uniforms of State Officials in State Prison Security Sections, Prisons and Education Centres and in Official State Vehicles, there is no provision pertaining to equipment of the space designated for transport of prisoners, other than the fact that a special protective partition is required to separate the space for prisoners from the space for judicial police officers. Consequently, it is necessary to find an adequate solution with regard to installation of seat belts in all vehicles intended for transport of prisoners, in order to reduce the possibility of the prisoners sustaining injuries. Accommodation conditions In 2015, there has been a significant decrease in the number of complaints about accommodation conditions field by persons deprived of their liberty who are in penal institutions. This can be explained by reduced overcrowding in the entire prison system. According to the records of the COPSD, occupancy rate in the prison system as at 31 December 2015 was 84.77%. However, in some prisons there is still the practice of accommodating more prisoners than the existing capacities allow: 125.86% in Rijeka County Prison, 111.29% in Zadar County Prison, 110.91% in Osijek County Prison, 109.00% in Varaždin County Prison, 106.25% in Požega County Prison and 102.20% in Bjelovar County Prison. One of the main reasons for filing complaints is the violation of accommodation standards pertaining to space requirements, according to which there has to be 4m2 and 10m3 of space provided for each prisoner in the dormitory. This is often the cause for prisoner’s complaints to the head of the prison or the executing judge. Following the executing judge’s decision on violation of rights, prisoners would be relocated to adequate dormitories. Apart from standards pertaining to space requirements, persons deprived of their liberty also complained about lack of cleaning agents. 3