pursue a “PrisonCloud” solution any further. Only in Norway detention facilities have had limited Internet access since 2010. Only Internet pages in the categories of “education” and “news” can be retrieved. However, the system requires a great deal of maintenance. Such (additional) loads cannot be handled in the foreseeable future due to the very sparse resources of the Austrian prison administration. Since both the European Prison Rules (Item 28.1) and the CPT Standards (CPT/Inf [2001] 16 Items 32, 33, 67 and CPT/Inf [99] 12 Item 3) consider offers of training and education to be a core task of the penal system, the use of computers and the Internet for learning purposes should also be permitted in Austrian penal institutions and facilities for the detention of mentally ill offenders. Therefore, the NPM welcomes the fact that the Austrian prison administration has operated a learning platform in cooperation with German penal institutions since 2012. This learning platform is currently offered for educational purposes in twelve correctional institutions and has 160 learning programmes. Internet access is provided at certain times for training purposes as part of low security incarceration and in a project in one of the field offices of the Stein correctional institution in Oberfucha. The NPM proposes that both projects be evaluated within a reasonable period of time and then adapted, if necessary, and that supervised Internet use be offered in additional correctional institutions.   The current practice of a learning platform, as offered in twelve correctional institutions, should be evaluated in the near future. Permanent steps must be taken to provide abuse-proof access to the Internet for continuing education purposes. 2.5.3 Special medical facility at the Stein correctional institution – serious charges have been made In May 2014, Commission 5 visited the Stein correctional institution. In particular, it addressed the healthcare provided at the special medical facility and to mentally ill offenders. The commission found that there was inadequate medical care, a shortage of medical personnel and a questionable understanding of nursing on the part of the nursing staff with respect to the inmates. Manifold criticisms Individual observations led to the conclusion that inmates in need of nursing care do not receive adequate instructions or active support from the nursing staff for their everyday care needs. Geriatric department The NPM considers it extremely disturbing that a detainee who Inmates wasting away 103