located near the entrance, where the detainees can receive a lawyer. That happens mainly when they apply for asylum. • Visit no. 3-2015 Date: 2015.05.28 Location: Cadeia de Apoio da Horta [Horta’s Prison Facility] (Autonomous Region of the Azores) Subject: Presence of direction. Technical intervention In the morning of May 28th, the Portuguese Ombudsman, as NPM, visited the Horta’s Prison Facility, located on Faial’s Island. The visited institution supports the Angra do Heroísmo’s Prison Facility and has 16 prison cells. At this day, 23 prisoners were present but there are others two allocated to this prison which were convicted to weekend detention. It was found that the director made, in 2014, five visits to this prison facility with an average duration of five days each. In 2015, there is only one visit, which had occurred eight days ago. It should also be mentioned that, when he is in the prison, the director talk with everyone and with every single inmate. Nevertheless, there is no any visit in the last two years by the technicians of education services of the Angra do Heroísmo’s Prison Facility. At the end of the visit, the Ombudsman had the opportunity to stress that it could be taken one of the following measures: having an annual attendance plan of the education service or being appointed someone (a staff member of the Horta’s Prison Facility) for that task.(12) • Visit no. 4-2015(S) Date: 2015.08.13 Location: Centro Educativo da Bela Vista [Bela Vista Educational Centre] (Lisbon) Subject: Follow-up of the Recommendation no. 1/2015/MNP: Investigation of appropriate conditions to the implementation of the concept of «gender particularity» (12)  Following this visit, the NPM made the Recommendation no. 3/2015/MNP. Vide infra point 2.2. | 19