Correctional institutions institutions should follow this example. There is still no feedback from St. Pölten correctional institution and Vienna-Josefstadt correctional institution. XX  Every correctional institution shall establish a multi-professional treatment team for the treatment of substance use disorders. XX  The examination to determine whether there is a substance use disorder shall be performed by the medical staff upon arrival, but within 24 hours at the latest; this also applies at weekends and on public holidays. Incomplete therapeutic programme Substance addiction is a chronic illness that requires therapeutic treatment. Detainees with a substance use disorder thus need adequate therapy and treatment. Practice shows that care in the correctional institutions varies depending on the department. Information gathered on the visit to Innsbruck correctional institution in August 2017 indicated that up to 50% of the detainees needed a substance use disorder therapy programme as provided in the department for mentally ill offenders. This department has only ten detention places however (see NPM Report 2017, pp. 120 et seq.). Innsbruck correctional institution Innsbruck correctional institution took the criticism as an opportunity to reopen the so-called “base group for detainees with serious addiction” in January 2019 after a break of some two years. Even if the reactivation is to be seen as positive, this care programme will not suffice. The base group programme merely offers fortnightly information events from external institutions alternating with an exercise unit. Additional care and treatment settings are thus needed for the detainees with a substance use disorder who are held in normal prisons. Base group installed In Innsbruck correctional institution, the creation of a so-called area without illegal drugs has been planned since June 2017. Addicts who live voluntarily in this area should be offered more activities and therapeutic intervention in accordance with a concept by the correctional institution. The NPM recommends an appraisal of the concept as soon as possible so that steps for its implementation can be taken. For the NPM, it is not clear why the final appraisal of this concept has not been made by the Federal Ministry of Constitutional Affairs, Reforms, Deregulation and Justice since December 2017. Drug-free department 120