2.7 VISITS TO PRISONS In 2019, the NPM made six visits to prisons or their units. All visits were regular, i.e. Ig Open Unit of Ljubljana Prison (4 April 2019), Ig Prison (23 April 2019), Slovenska vas Semi-Open Unit of Dob Prison (16 May 2019), Novo mesto Unit of Ljubljana Prison (12 July 2019), Puščava Open Unit of Dob Prison (25 September 2019) and Koper Prison (23 and 24 October 2019), and were unannounced. The external expert/doctor, who cooperates contractually with the NPM, attended two visits, i.e. Ig Prison on 25 April 2019 and Koper Prison on 28 October 2019. A total of 76 recommendations were given, of which 72 were targeted and four were systemic. They referred to the living conditions (29), options for activities (eleven), the staff (ten), discussion of prisoners and forms of work (nine), health care (eight), contacts with the outside world (four), other matters (three) and two recommendations involved food. From a total of 76, 20 were accepted and realised, 48 were accepted, but not yet realised, the URSIKS did not state its position regarding two recommendations, and six were rejected. The foregoing reveals that many NPM recommendations were realised or accepted in 2019, but some of them have not yet been implemented. The unrealised ones particularly dealt with the recommendations that require more time for their realisation or elimination of the established deficiencies. In some cases, recommendations referred to the already planned activities in the prison visited or their unit in another location, but with a delay (e.g. the visit was carried out in the first half of the year and the activities were planned for the second half, or the visit was conducted in the second half of the year and the realisation of the recommendations was planned at the start of the new year). Two rejected recommendations involved activities, i.e. one in Ig Prison, where we recommended that purchases in the prison shop and delivery of clothes to the laundry room be arranged at times that would not coincide with the afternoon walk as prisoners have the right to spend at least two hours in the fresh air. During the visit, we received specific complaints from prisoners regarding shopping in 63 2.7 VISITS TO PRISONS From six recommendations that the URSIKS failed to accept, one referred to Ig Prison, i.e. regarding the arrangement of parking spaces for female prisoners accommodated in the open unit. The Head Office of the Prison Administration of the Republic of Slovenia noted that due to the anticipated start of works for the construction or extension of Ig Prison the possibilities for arranging additional parking spaces for female prisoners (anticipated area in front of the open unit) are additionally limited. Due to construction works, there would also be a shortage of parking spaces for the staff and parking spaces for them would have to be arranged at other locations.