2.16. Work and Occupation 2.16.1. The level of occupation in PIs needs to be increased by engaging persons deprived of liberty in various types of purposeful occupation. Educational courses and cultural, athletic, information, and other activities should be regularly organized in a PI. Occupation programs should be developed and participation therein should be encouraged. 2.16.2. Conditions should be created in correctional institutions for efficient management of the convicts’ free time. To this end, a library, a reading hall, a gym, and other pastime venues should be created and different education programs implemented in the correctional institution. 2.16.3. Persons deprived of liberty shall be engaged in housekeeping and other potential work taking into account the scope of their abilities, their profession, sex, age, and other relevant circumstances. 2.16.4. The desire of persons deprived of liberty to engage in creative work should be encouraged in PIs, and to the extent possible, supported by creating the necessary preconditions. 2.16.5. Convicts should be, if possible, secured for convicts. 2.16.6. For the purpose of effective reintegration in social life after serving the sentence, it is necessary to organize in the PI such courses that will help convicts to have, to some extent, predictable opportunities in the labor market in the future. 2.17. Specificities of the Holding Conditions for Women and Juveniles Deprived of Liberty in Penitentiary Institutions 42