Gender and Security Toolkit Pillar Promote healthy connections 58 No. Point 5.01 Connection with family is facilitated and encouraged in addition to visits, including by telephone, video link, email, letter writing, etc. 5.02 Visiting facilities allow for a positive visiting experience, preferably including contact visits, particularly in the case of children 5.03 Search/entry procedures for visitors are not degrading, at least as protective as those for prisoners and exclude cavity searches 5.04 Where conjugal visits are allowed, female prisoners have equal access as do male prisoners and there is no discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity 5.05 The restriction or limiting of visits is never used as a punishment for bad behaviour 5.06 Prisoners can immediately notify a family member or other designated contact person of their transfer to another institution Those working with women and girls 5.07 Staff and management are aware of the centrality of parenting to many women’s lives, and facilitate contact primarily via in-person visits 5.08 Women are always consulted as to who, including which family members, can visit them Those working with men and boys 5.09 Management and staff recognize the responsibility felt by many men to be providers and protectors, and facilitate ways for them to remain involved in family and community life 5.10 Programmes focus on parenting and fatherhood to build skills and facilitate healthy father–child relationships Yes/no/ partially What can your organization and others do to improve the situation? Point of responsibility Action-by date