prisons, and to report on this. main problem here was said to be the large share of detainees who came into contact with narcotics and who used relaxations of regime to consume these. Correspondence with the National Agency may not be monitored. Art. 32 para. 2 of the Bavarian Prison Act (BayStVollzG) already contains a corresponding provision for communication with the CPT. A corresponding notice on the blackboard for the inmates is requested. An on-the-spot assurance was given that such a notice would be put up. According to the Ministry, this already took place on the next day. Furthermore, it was ordered that a corresponding notice should be put up in all Bavarian prisons and that the officers should be once more separately pointed to the freedom from monitoring of correspondence with the Commission. 5. Dresden prison in July 2011 The Commission of the Länder carried out an inspection visit in Dresden prison on 28 July 2011. Dresden prison has a capacity of 805 detention places. It was occupied with a total of 761 inmates at the time of the visit (of whom 56 were female inmates, six of whom were undergoing social therapy). The Commission of the Länder particularly inspected several criminal detention wings, the admissions area, the transport department, the visiting area, the specially-secured cells and the disciplinary detention cells. It consulted with the prison governor, other officers and a member of the staff representative. It furthermore spoke during the inspection with inmates who were in solitary confinement, with inmates in the transport wing, as well as with members of the prisoners’ co-responsibility body. The Commission of the Länder additionally inspected various personnel files of inmates. Recommendations of the Commission of the Länder The Commission of the Länder is concerned about the circumstances under which solitary confinement is carried out on two inmates found there. Reaction of the Saxon State Ministry of Justice and for Europe The ordering of solitary confinement as a special security measure is said to be regularly reviewed, currently at three-monthly intervals. The inmates are continually offered psychological treatment, in particular in order One of the two inmates has already been in to be able to make the necessary positive solitary confinement since May 2009. It canprognosis soon in order to relax the security not be foreseen in either case when solitary measure that has been ordered. confinement could be terminated. Solitary confinement was said to have now Accommodation is carried out in cells which been terminated in one of the cases. In the are additionally barred. The barred door is other case, the inmate received a life senused for all communication with the inmates tence with subsequent preventive detention (e.g. also with the psychologists or the legal because of his recent failed escape attempt representative). Sight guards are affixed in involving physical attacks and considerable front of the cell windows which considerably injuries to officers. It was said to also be prerestrict the view outside and prevent light sumable that a particular danger still emacoming in. nated from the inmate, so that it was still 47