59.25 September Members of the NPM, the Ombudsman’s adviser, Robert Gačnik, and Marija 2017 Milavec Kapun from the Slovenian Federation of Pensioners’ Associations, made an unannounced thematic visit to the Rogoza Open Unit of Maribor Prison on the subject of the elderly, people with disabilities, people with impaired mobility, the deaf and hearing impaired, the blind and visually impaired, and mute people in prisons (vulnerable people). 60.25 September Members of the NPM, the Ombudsman’s adviser Robert Gačnik and Marija 2017 Milavec Kapun from the Slovenian Federation of Pensioners’ Associations, made an unannounced thematic visit to the Murska Sobota Unit of Maribor Prison on the subject of the elderly, people with disabilities, people with impaired mobility, the deaf and hearing impaired, the blind and visually impaired, and mute people in prisons (vulnerable people). 61.26 September Members of the NPM, the Ombudsman’s adviser, Robert Gačnik, and Marija 2017 Milavec Kapun from the Slovenian Federation of Pensioners’ Associations, made an unannounced thematic visit to the Nova Gorica Unit of Koper Prison on the subject of the elderly, people with disabilities, people with impaired mobility, the deaf and hearing impaired, the blind and visually impaired, and mute people in prisons (vulnerable people). 62.28 September Members of the NPM, the Ombudsman’s adviser, Robert Gačnik, and Marija 2017 Milavec Kapun from the Slovenian Federation of Pensioners’ Associations, made an unannounced thematic visit to Maribor Prison on the subject of the elderly, people with disabilities, people with impaired mobility, the deaf and hearing impaired, the blind and visually impaired, and mute people in prisons (vulnerable people). 63. 2 October Members of the NPM, Deputy Ombudsman Ivan Šelih and the Ombudsman’s 2017 advisers mag. Jure Markič and Robert Gačnik together with Nika Mori from Novi paradoks and Dr Peter Kastner from the Austrian NPM as the external expert, made an announced control visit to the Forensic Unit of the Psychiatric Department of Maribor University Hospital. 64. 3 October Members of the NPM, the Ombudsman’s adviser, Robert Gačnik, and Marija 2017 Milavec Kapun from the Slovenian Federation of Pensioners’ Associations, made an unannounced thematic visit to the Novo Mesto Unit of Ljubljana Prison on the subject of the elderly, people with disabilities, people with impaired mobility, the deaf and hearing impaired, the blind and visually impaired, and mute people in prisons (vulnerable people). 65. 4 October Members of the NPM, the Deputy Ombudsman, Miha Horvat, the Ombudsman’s 2017 adviser, Robert Gačnik, and Marija Milavec Kapun from the Slovenian Federation of Pensioners’ Associations, made an unannounced thematic visit to Ig Prison on the subject of the elderly, people with disabilities, people with impaired mobility, the deaf and hearing impaired, the blind and visually impaired, and mute people in prisons (vulnerable people). 66. 5 October Members of the NPM, the Ombudsman’s adviser, Robert Gačnik, and Marija 2017 Milavec Kapun from the Slovenian Federation of Pensioners’ Associations, made an unannounced thematic visit to the Ig Open Unit of Ljubljana Prison on the subject of the elderly, people with disabilities, people with impaired mobility, the deaf and hearing impaired, the blind and visually impaired, and mute people in prisons (vulnerable people). 67. 10 October Members of the NPM, the Ombudsman’s adviser, Robert Gačnik, and Marija 2017 Milavec Kapun from the Slovenian Federation of Pensioners’ Associations, made an unannounced thematic visit to Celje Prison and Juvenile Prison on the subject of the elderly, people with disabilities, people with impaired mobility, the deaf and hearing impaired, the blind and visually impaired, and mute people in prisons (vulnerable people). 68. 19 October Members of the NPM, the Ombudsman’s adviser, Robert Gačnik, and Primož 2017 Križnar from SKUP – Community of Private Institutes, made an unannounced visit to Kozina Police Station. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2017 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 23