With regard to ensuring individual regimes in hospital rooms, the right to smoking, and other similar issues, the Ministry of Justice assured us that it would study the possibilities for the most appropriate regulation. It optimistically concluded that the majority of problems associated with hospital rooms in Dob Prison would be finally resolved once the refurbishment of this institution has been completed and new hospital rooms in the new facility constructed. As evident from our findings, these predictions have not been fully realised. In the light of the different furnishings and not completely appropriate equipment in these rooms, we believe that it is necessary to furnish and equip these rooms in accordance with their purpose and uniformly at all locations, and that they be correctly located (if possible on the ground floor). A major problem in the accommodation of vulnerable people in custody are also architectural barriers which hinder movement in the prison or its remote unit or make it very difficult. With the exception of Dob Prison and Koper Prison, none of the prisons have a lift which could facilitate the movements of vulnerable people in custody (e.g. people who use various mobility aids) and their ability to go outdoors, or to the yard, the library, the institution’s store, and so on. Architectural barriers can also cause problems to other people in custody (who are not otherwise vulnerable) who have sustained an injury during the serving of their sentence (e.g. at work or during other activities) and who need to use mobility aids (e.g. crutches). As stated by the people in custody, this can result in vulnerable people not going for walks or attending other activities in the prisons or their remote units (e.g. work therapies). In consideration of the individual standards in this field, the facilities used by vulnerable people in custody should be equipped so that they allow wheelchair access, the doors should be wide enough, the halls should be wide and equipped with grab bars, and the stairs should be of an appropriate dimension (where present) and equipped with grab bars at an appropriate height and with ramps with a slope of no more than 8%. The floors of the stairs and other rooms should be non-slippery and safe to walk on when wet. The bathroom should be of an appropriate size and furnished for the use of people in wheelchairs, with grab bars and a shower at floor level (as stipulated for example by the Rules on the Requirements for Free Access to, Entry to and Use of Public Buildings and Facilities and Multi-Apartment Buildings39 and the Rules on Minimum Technical Requirements for Social Services Providers40). Bathroom and toilet in the hospital room in Department V of Dob Prison with a narrow entrance, high doorstep and no grab bars. 39  Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 97/03 and subsequent. 40  Rules on Minimum Technical Requirements for Social Services Providers, Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 67/06. 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 95