according to the Public Defender’s recommendation, prisoners should be explained that they have the right to appeal their movement order. The Parliament approved these recommendations in its “Resolution on the Report of the Public Defender on the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms in Georgia in 2013”. However, the Ministry of Corrections has not fulfilled the recommendations and the practice concerned has not changed yet. It has been emphasized in the Public Defender’s 2013 Report that remand prisoners and convicted prisoners are not fully isolated from each other in the penitentiary institutions.60 Neither are juvenile prisoners and adult prisoners.61 These two issues are still a matter of concern at the penitentiary institution no. 8. Accordingly, the Public Defender’s recommendation has not been fulfilled. Monitoring carried out at the Institution no. 6 showed that all convicted prisoners, with no distinction by their imprisonment regime, were allowed to exercise outdoors under the same rule – one hour a day. In other words, prisoners who are serving their sentence under a half-open regime cannot move freely inside the institution on a territory designated for that purpose despite the fact that they are entitled to a leisure time for 6 hours and 30 minutes every day under the prison regulations. It follows that, in the Institution no. 6, such prisoners are not able to exercise their freedom to the extent guaranteed to them by the Georgian legislation. The Public Defender believes this problem has to do with the lack of appropriate infrastructure at the Institution no. 6. This Institution is unfit for housing both closed regime and half-open regime prisoners at the same time. 2.3.6.  SECURITY MEASURES; MANAGEMENT OF INCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES 2.3.6.1.  SMART RECEPTION UNITS On 2 December 2014, the Order of the Minister of Corrections, Probation and Legal Assistance no. 97 dated 30 May 2011 was amended determining legal grounds for placing prisoners in the Smart Reception Unit. There is a separate de-escalation room in the Smart Reception Unit. According to the amended ministerial order, if a remand or sentenced prisoner in the waiting room is a threat to his/her own or others’ lives, the penitentiary institution’s administration may allocate such a prisoner in a properlyequipped de-escalation room within the institution under a 24-hour visual supervision and with an uninterrupted access to the healthcare personnel. A de-escalation room must be equipped with a safe matrass, a surveillance camera (the lavatory pan must 60 61 Institution no. 7 is referred to as an example, p. 62. The report is accessible at http://www. ombudsman.ge/uploads/other/1/1563.pdf [last viewed 15.02.2015]. A recommendation about isolating juvenile priosoners from adult prisoenrs has also became part of the Parliament’s Resolution on the Report of the Public Defender on the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms in Georgia in 2013 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM OF GEORGIA 43