Report on the Performance of Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2015 Open doors, failure to use screens in rooms with several beds and similar treatment during the implementation of care for the users in the rooms and bathrooms violate their privacy and can be degrading, which is something that the employees of the homes need to pay special attention to. Users of homes are often not sufficiently informed about their rights or the decisions made by the homes that pertain to them. An example of good practice is the Home for the Elderly and Disabled “Vita Nova”, which lists in detail all the rights of the users in the contract that the home concludes with them. Open doors, failure to use screens in rooms with several beds and similar treatment during the implementation of care for the users in the rooms and bathrooms violate their privacy and can be degrading, which is something that the employees of the homes need to pay special attention to. In all five homes, psychotropic medications are prescribed by psychiatrists and we have not had the impression that the users were over-sedated. There have been no complaints of coercion to take medication nor have we found any situations where users were given sedatives by employees who are not healthcare professionals in order to prevent them from being agitated. There is no use of means for physical restraint of persons; one uses only the means for fixation of one arm during administering of intravenous therapy, which is done with increased supervision by healthcare professionals (for example in the Home for the Elderly and Disabled “Kantrida”) and the means that serve to prevent the person falling out of a wheelchair if he/she is unable to sit in the wheelchair unassisted. In agitated persons, the staff usually lifts the sides of the bed at night to prevent them from falling out. As a rule, all persons are encouraged to spend as little time as possible in bed during the day and they are placed in the wheelchair and taken to the common rooms so that they can participate in organized free-time activities. It is only in the Home in Pula and at one ward of the Home in Rijeka that the users who have difficulty moving or are unable to move independently are not encouraged to get out of bed. In order to ensure the quality of living, it is extremely important for a person not to spend the entire time in bed during the day, but rather to become involved in various activities or social interaction, in accordance with their own interests. 4. ASSESSMENT OF THE STATUS OF RESPECT OF RIGHTS OF PERSONS DEPRIVED OF THEIR LIBERTY 4.1. Persons deprived of their liberty who are in the prison system Healthcare Prisoners who fall ill are usually treated at the Prison Hospital, where the security measure of compulsory psychiatric treatment is implemented, if it is pronounced in addition to the prison sentence. The prison hospital is not a medical institution but rather has the status of a high21