ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER OF GEORGIA 2013 and the current bad practice is simply a remnant of old regulations that were aimed at preventing any sharp objects getting in the hands of prisoners as it was believed that a cigarette filter could be used to make such an item. Nowadays, the current regulations allow prisoners to have plastic-made items that are way easier to transform into sharp objects. Accordingly, it is difficult to justify the current limitation on filter cigarettes as a matter of either the fact or the law. The temporary detention isolator in Lentekhi The isolator is located in the police building in Lentekhi. It is separated from the rest of the building with iron bars and a wooden door. The isolator consists of two cells only. Each cell is designed for two individuals. At the time of monitoring, the light bulb in the cell was fused and the only light reaching cell was in part was the one coming from the police building. Because the cell has no window, the daylight penetrates only through the holes in the wooden planks mounted on the bars on the top of the cell. At the time of monitoring, there was one detainee in the cell who stated that he had not been subjected to any physical or psychological pressure. After his arrest, an ambulance team was called up because the detainee felt bad. According to the detainee, he was receiving food and items of hygiene from his relatives. Water was provided with a bottle. No food was available locally. The cell had no ventilation or heating system. The wooden door of the cell was always open; only the bars were locked. The door would never get shut even if the detainee wanted to change his clothes. A toilet was located outside the cells, in the police building. The shower room was dysfunctional as there was no hot water supply. The temporary detention isolator in Lentekhi is incompatible for accommodating detainees and therefore should be shut down. Nutrition is one of the major problems of temporary detention isolators. Pursuant to the information received from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and our interviews with the detainees, the detainees are served meals thrice a day. The meals consist of sugar, tea, pâté, dry soup, bread and canned meat. According to official information, detainees in the temporary detention isolator no. 1 in Tbilisi and the isolators in Mtskheta-Mtianeti are served bread, buckwheat, macaroni in oil, boiled potatoes, pea soup, borsch (beetroot soup), cutlet, goulash, beans, fish, mashed potatoes, vegetable salad, fried vegetables and tea. We believe that, at the temporary detention isolators, where people serve their administrative detention which may last for as long as 90 days, it is important that the detainees be provided with proper food ration because eating pâté, dry soup and canned meat all the time for a long time period may cause problems with digestive system. Recommendations to the Minister of Internal Affairs: QQ To set up new institutions specially designed for administrative detainees and suitable for accommodating such detainees for long periods of time, with consideration paid to a geographical principle; QQ To install central heating in the cells at all temporary detention isolators; to provide the cells with proper lighting and ventilation, including natural lighting and ventilation; QQ To isolate toilets at all of the temporary detention isolators; QQ To create conditions required for maintaining hygiene at all of the temporary detention isolators, including by installing washstands and taps in the cells so that detainees can use water independently; QQ To ensure that detainees have the opportunity of taking a walk outside to breathe some fresh air, every day, in a specially designed area; QQ To remove the wooden planks from the cells in all of the temporary detention isolators and to provide each detainee with a bed of his own; QQ To ensure that detainees in all of the temporary detention isolators are provided with proper food ration. NPM Report 54