NPM established that in almost all institutions and remote units medication (which is prepared by medical staff in the institution’s clinic) is still distributed by judicial police officers. The Prison Administration did not provide any specific comments for Ig Prison with regard to this. Concerning the recommendation for Koper Prison, the Prison Administration said that (as explained in the 2015 report) the institution believes that medication should be distributed by the institution’s healthcare staff due to professional qualifications, control, and additional explanations provided to patients. This was impossible to implement at the time with the available staff, and the nurse prepared the medications which were distributed by judicial police officers. Now, nurses distribute medication in the morning and at lunchtime during the week, while in the evening and over the weekend, or on non-working days, the prepared medication is distributed by judicial police officers. The distribution of medication as recommended by the NPM’s medical expert is also in the interest of the institution. Despite staffing limitations, they are therefore trying to organise it so that medication is distributed predominantly by health professionals. During the visit to Radeče CF, the admitted minors did not voice any major concerns regarding the provision of healthcare services. They did however complain about dental healthcare services, as the latter had not been available for a while prior to the NPM’s visit. We therefore recommended that Radeče CF sees to a consistent implementation of services under the Agreement on mutual relations in the implementation of primary healthcare services at Radeče CF as of 21 November 2016. Radeče CF consequently contacted the Ministry of Health. Following our intervention to receive the answer from this Ministry, the Ministry said that an agreement had been reached with the Association of Health Institutions that a joint proposal be prepared for the General Agreement for 2017 on expanding the programmes in prisons with providers which require an expansion of the programme in order to ensure an extension to office hours. The prepared recommendation was accepted and applies as of 1 January 2018. As of 26 July 2017, dental healthcare services are now being provided in Radeče CF. Thematic visit on conditions for 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 in custody) As the majority of the prisons and their remote units are located in older buildings, whose premises were mostly not foreseen for the accommodation of vulnerable people in custody, the Ombudsman, in the role of the NPM, decided to study the conditions for these people in 2017, and to prepare a special thematic report on its findings, including recommendations for improving the conditions of accommodation and treatment of vulnerable people in custody. The answers in the questionnaires and the thematic visits showed that the accommodation of vulnerable people in custody is mostly not appropriately arranged in prisons and their remote units, or that this field is not appropriately regulated. We believe that partially appropriate accommodation of vulnerable people in custody is provided only by Dob Prison (the specially adapted premises on the second floor of Department I) and conditionally also by Celje Prison and Juvenile Prison, which has two rooms for people with impaired mobility (one on the ground floor and one on the first floor). However, even in these two prisons the rooms which are used for the accommodation of vulnerable people in custody are not equipped with appropriate hospital beds (e.g. a hospital bed trapeze, of adjustable height and position). Stairlift for accessing the second floor of Department I of Dob Prison IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2017 Appropriately arranged toilets NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 93