made available to them despite any language barriers. Detainees awaiting deportation should be pointed to the possibility of consulting an interpreter. The Commission of the Länder complains that, according to the prison governor, no documentation of the security measures is kept (here: binding, solitary detention). The recommendation to keep records in a separate register was transmitted to the police. The documentation and a review of the security measures is said to have been provably possible using the documents No documentation was submitted to the submitted to the Commission. Commission, despite enquiries. The Commission of the Länder has no reason to doubt the truth of the governor’s statement. The Commission complains that there are still no partitions installed in the shared showers (cf. also CPT criticism from 1997). This shows a lack of cultural sensitivity. Particularly among people from different cultural backgrounds, as can be typically found in facilities for detention awaiting deportation, the different individual senses of shame should be taken into consideration (cf. also p. 22). The showers are said to be in line with the normal standard of German swimming baths, as well as company and other similar facilities. A separate partition of the individual showers was said to not be feasible because of the particularities of the building (lack of space). The Commission notes with regard to the first statement by the Senate Administration that the use of swimming baths, unlike facilities for detention awaiting deportation, is voluntary; what is more, users of public baths do not usually use the showers for their daily physical hygiene. The Commission of the Länder asks to what degree the large number of staff, totalling 192 staff members, influences the daily rate costs which inmates have to pay as a result of their accommodation. The accommodation rate of € 65.26 is said to be comprised of prison staff costs (€ 39.13), social care (€ 10.38), use of detention cell including food (€ 15.55) and costs for maintaining television sets (€ 0.25). The Commission complains of the sparse sports and leisure activities offered. In view of the large amount of staffing (192 staff members as against an average occupancy of 63 detainees awaiting deportation in 2010), an expansion of the activities available should not cause any organisational problems. The high level of staffing should also permit an expansion of the outside stay. The Commission also noticed that the leisure rooms are inadequately equipped. The detainees are said to be offered drawing on Mondays, play-fun sport on Tuesdays, a Muslim religious service on Thursday and a Christian mass on Friday. Additionally, for Jewish believers there was a Rabbi available on Sundays. Inmates were furthermore able to celebrate church holidays together (with no separation of the sexes). A weekly visit to a cinema performance was offered. The inmates had a library at their permanent disposal with 63