confinement have in need of bulletin boards listing the rights and responsibilities of the prisoners, records have not been taken properly in the registration book in the medical-sanitary unit of the facility; and ambulatory-care room was in need of further improvement of the condition. The shortcomings were brought to the attention of the head of the prison facility and the chief physician of the medical-sanitary unit and were given suggestions for the improvement of custody detention, healthcare service and the documentation in accordance with national and international legislation. The purpose of the visit to the Jail No. 7 was to ascertain facts indicated in the applications received by the Commissioner and to assess custody condition and treatment. With this purpose, all establishments within the premises of the prison facility, including solitary confinement, quarantine cell, medical-sanitary unit, visiting rooms, worship places, clubs, kitchen, baths, gyms and prison phone call rooms and other were monitored, more than 60 prisoners were interviewed privately and collectively and also, documentation and registration books were reviewed. Meanwhile, it was found that there was a over crowdedness in the solitary confinement cells; there were a lack of bulletin board listing the rights and responsibilities and the rules of daily regime; the prisoners who must be put into cell were not segregated and were still kept together with those in the solitary confinement; size of some prison cells did not meet international standards; and the floor of one of the cells was in need of repair. During the monitoring in the medical-sanitary unit of the facility, it was observed that sanitary rules in the ambulatory-care room have been disobeyed and in general, there were untidy and not clean. There were problems in the medical registration books, including problems with the registration, the room intended for drug storage was full of unrelated things, the fridge was out of service and there were anti-chock drugs in the dental cabinet. The shortcomings were brought to the attention of the head of the prison facility and the chief physician of the medical-sanitary unit and were given suggestions for the improvement of custody detention, health care service and the documentation in accordance with national and international legislation. In the response letter submitted by the Penitentiary Service it was stated that all drawbacks were eradicated. The purpose of the visit to the Jail No. 8 was to ascertain facts indicated in the applications received by the Commissioner and to assess custody condition, treatment and the state of ensuring the rights of prisoners. During this visit, prisoners were interviewed by the NPG members in a 37

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