RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE MINISTER OF CORRECTIONS: •• Ensure the access to short-term visitations without glass partitions •• Ensure the construction of adequate infrastructure for long-term visitations in all penitentiary institutions •• Ensure the construction of adequate infrastructure for video-visitations in all penitentiary institutions •• Ensure a full access to telephone conversations as per the right granted by the legislation •• Undertake all necessary measures to ensure the confidentiality of correspondence granted by the law TO THE HEAD OF THE PENITENTIARY DEPARTMENT •• Consider a place of residence of family members of a prisoner while making a decision on the placement in a penitentiary institution to ensure that prisoners are able to exercise their right to visitations A PROPOSAL TO THE PARLIAMENT OF GEORGIA •• Amend the Imprisonment Code to reflect on the need of untried prisoners for long-term visits with due consideration of interests of an investigation •• Amend the Imprisonment Code so that prisoners serving in closed institutions are allowed to increased number of short-term visits NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM OF GEORGIA 153