Attendance at domestic meetings and conferences 2012. The participants of the debate included the representatives of the Prison Service, non-governmental organisations, an entrepreneur employing convicted persons and the persons who served a custodial sentence. The participants of the conference tried to find out whether the employment of prisoners had declined significantly after the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal of 23 February 2010 (file No P 20/09) which rules that the remuneration of inmates should be at least equal to the minimum salary. The participants presented conclusions pointing to the need to amend the legal regulations and findings which do not require the change of regulations. As part of the annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting organised by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, on 26 September 2012 a representative of the NPM took part in the discussion entitled Sharing OPCAT Experience in OSCE Countries and a panel on prevention of torture. Moreover, since the conference was attended also by the representatives of the Association for the Prevention of Torture, a member of the NPM met with Mark Thomson, Secretary General of APT, and Audrey Oliver Murlat, OPCAT Programme Officer. A representative of the NPM Team took part in the academic conference entitled The Role of Human Rights in the Polish Penitentiary System. Education, Rehabilitation, Humanitarianism9 held on 10-12 October 2012. The meeting focused on human rights in the Polish penitentiary system. On 29 November 2012, training was organised for the Penitentiary Studies Group of Students of the University of Łódź during which a representative of the NPM Team presented the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism. The training also included the discussion on the functioning of the Prison Service. The students had an opportunity to ask questions and extend their knowledge in the area of penitentiary law. On 30 November 2012, a representative of the NPM participated in a seminar organised by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and entitled Prison health service. Current discussion and directions of reforms. The representative of the NPM presented the conclusions on healthcare in prisons stemming from preventive visits under the NPM and highlighted positive developments in the access to health services. He also pointed to irregularities in this regard, such as the attitude of medical personnel to inmates (brusqueness, filing request for punishment too freely) or the lack of separate patient rooms or using the existing patient rooms to accommodate healthy inmates in order to reduce overcrowding in a given establishment.10 The conference was organised by the Prison Service Training Centre in Kule. Cf. http://www.hfhrpol.waw.pl/zdrowiewwiezieniu/images/stories/file/OpiekaZdrowotna.pdf 9 10 13