Ministry of Corrections, in 2014, 1,040 untried prisoners were admitted with injuries to the detention facilities of the Penitentiary Department. Of this figure, 136 prisoners received their injuries during detention, 853 prisoners before detention, 48 prisoners after detention and 3 prisoners did not disclose the origin of their injuries. According to the same information, in 2014, 3,169 prisoners received their injuries inside the penitentiary institutions. Of this figure, 2,261 cases were self-injuries, 755 cases were everyday life injuries, 53 prisoners did not specify how they got injured and in 100 cases prisoners were injured by other persons. According to the results of the National Preventive Mechanism’s inspection visits paid to the penitentiary institutions in 2014, the healthcare personnel are not properly documenting prisoner injuries. Often times the time of discovering the injuries and their origin are not indicated. Signatures of the physician and the prisoner are also absent in many cases. During the reporting period, the National Preventing Mechanism encountered many cases of the healthcare personnel not documenting prisoner injuries at all – a practice that clearly contradicts the standards on the prevention of ill-treatment. The Public Defender conducted an inquiry in the following specific case. According to a letter lodged by S.Q. with the Public Defender’s Office, on 14 January 2014, he was verbally and physically abused by the employees of the Penitentiary Department at the Institution no. 15. While meeting with the prisoner, the Public Defender’s trustees observed a clear injury on his body (a ruptured skin in the area of the left eyebrow). On this ground, the Public Defender addressed the Chief Prosecutor with a recommendation to launch investigation. The Chief Prosecution Office informed the Public Defender that prisoner S.Q. was interrogated but he did not confirm he was injured by the Penitentiary Department employees; however, he did mention he injured his face in the Institution no. 15 when he fell down in his cell. The Public Defender’s trustees, within the framework an inquiry into this case, did not find any document in the Institution no. 15 providing any information about Prisoner S.Q.’s injury. According to the information received from the Chief Prosecution Office, neither did the investigation find such a document. Hence, it follows that S.Q.’s injury remained undocumented in the Institution no. 15. Prisoner O.G. reported that, on 3 September 2014, he was at the Institution’s medical unit where he had an argument with the prison doctor who verbally insulted him several times. According to the prisoner, when the prison staff heard the noise, they rushed into the room and started beating him (the prisoner). When the Public Defender’s trustees met with O.G., they observed different injuries on O.G.’s body: a swelling and a bruise in the area of the left eye, a swelling on the forehead and some scratches. Although the incident occurred on 3 September, the prisoner injuries were not documented in the relevant document – a journal for injury registration. It was only on 4 September – when a Public Defender’s trustee discovered the injuries – that the prison staff entered the information about the injuries into the journal. Further, on NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM OF GEORGIA 21