Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2012 filed by persons deprived of liberty, if the replies were not granted immediately after the requests and applications were filed.74 6.  Right to contact with the outside world During the visits, the representatives of the NPM found that in numerous establishments there were no separate rooms where the reward stipulated in Article 138 § 1(3) of the Executive Penal Code, i.e. a visit in a separate room, without any supervising person present, could be provided.75 The lack of such a room in an establishment means that this reward cannot be granted, even if inmates meet all criteria for obtaining the reward. A recommendation was made to assign such rooms in all places lacking them.76 During the visits, the employees of the NPM also found cases of using CCTV in rooms for unsupervised visits.77 It should be emphasized that the issue was the subject of the motion of the Human Rights Defender.78 The Human Rights Defender is of the opinion that cameras in those rooms are in contradiction to the intention of the legislator introducing the reward. Stipulating that this is an unsupervised visit, the legislator ordered to abandon supervision of the inmate and persons visiting the inmate, thus granting them more freedom and more privacy during the visit. The visiting team also pointed out that the bond between family members is fostered inter alia thanks to the tradition of meetings on specific days of the years (public holidays). Furthermore, persons who are employed often do not work during public holidays which gives them a rare opportunity to visit their family members who are deprived of liberty. The revealed incidence gave rise to the request of the Human Rights Defender to the Director General of the Prison Service to consider the introduction of the rules harmonising the practice of visits in penitentiary establishments in order to respect the right of inmates to maintain the contact with their families and closed ones.79 Prison in Nowy Wiśnicz, Prison in Tarnów-Mościce, Prison in Płock, Prison in Kwidzyn. The furnishing of such rooms was specified in Annex (Table 20) to the Ordinance of the Minister of Justice of 17 October 2003 on living conditions of inmates in prisons and pre-trial detention centres (Dz. U. No 186, item 1820). 76 Prison in Warsaw-Białołęka, Prison in Sztum, Prison in Grodków, Prison in Kwidzyn, Prison in Nowy Wiśnicz, Prison No 1 in Grudziądz, Prison in Rawicz, Pre-trial Detention Centre in Prudnik, Prison in Siedlce, Prison in Stargard Szczeciński. 77 Prison in Grodków, Pre-trial Detention Centre in Dzierżoniów. 78 Motion of 6 September 2012 RPO-680042-II-704. 3/11/PM http://www.sprawy-generalne.brpo.gov.pl/szczegoly.php?pismo=1668757 79 Motion of 26 March 2013 RPO-701427-VII-720.5/12/DK http://www.sprawy-generalne.brpo.gov.pl/szczegoly.php?pismo=1710717 In reply of 25 April 2013, the Director General of the Prison Service stated that he would order the directors of penitentiary establishments to specify in the internal regulations the days of visits which fall on important church holidays, regardless of the denomination, and on other public holidays. 74 75 40