its Recommendation no. 03-2/3953 to provide the prisoners with adequate living conditions. The Special Preventive Group considered the conditions of prisoners in solitary confinement cells at the Institution no. 3 also ill-treatment. The Group was visiting the Institution no. 3 through 23-24 October 2014. Our monitoring revealed that it was impossible to keep sanitation and hygiene in the cells, there was an unbearable smell all around, the prisoners did not have matrasses and linen27 and they had to sleep on iron beds.28 One of the prisoners had toilet paper rolled around his body underneath his clothes to protect himself from cold. The prisoners allocated in solitary confinement cells were not allowed to exercise outside.29 The living conditions are particularly grave at the Institution no. 7. The Public Defender has been repeatedly addressing the Minister of Corrections with its recommendations on this issue. The matter is discussed in detail in the Public Defender’s 2013 Report to the Georgian Parliament but major problems at the Institution have not been dealt with to this date.30 2.2.3.2.  PENITENTIARY STAFF TRAINING Development of professional teaching programs and trainings for public officials is a key element of a strategy of prevention of torture and inhuman treatment.31 Consequently, it is necessary to organize trainings and courses for them periodically. Especially needed are trainings in effective prevention of prison incidents and human rights-based approaches. Pursuant to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or 27 28 29 30 31 On the issue of providing prisoners in solitary confinement cells with mattrasses and linen, the monitoring team spoke with the Institution’s lawyer who explained that the law does not envisage that such prisoners be provided with matrasses and linen. It should be noted that, during our visit to the Institution no. 3, the Penitentiary Department’s Monitoring Division was conducting its scheduled monitoring to the same institution. The National Preventive Mechanism team provided the Penitentiary Department’s monitoring group with information about detention conditions in solitary confinement cells that are incompatible with human dignity demanding that the Penitentiary Department’s monitoring group take appropriate measures immediately. Our team informed the group also about other problems we revealed at the Institution no. 3. Detention conditions must be compatible with respect for human dignity, prisoners’ health and well-being should be adequately secured (Valašinas v. Lithuania, no. 44558/98, § 102, ECHR 2001‑VIII). For more detail, please see in this Report a chapter entitled “Physical environment and sanitation and hygienic conditions at penitentiary institutions” Human Rights Committee general comment No. 20: “Enforcement personnel, medical personnel, police officers and any person involved in the custody or treatment of any individual subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment must receive appropriate instruction and training. States Parties should inform the Committee of the instruction and training given and the way in which the prohibition of article 7 forms an integral part of the operational rules and ethical standards to be followed by such persons” (par. 10). NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM OF GEORGIA 29