• With regard to the confinement room, the NPM repeated its recommendation from the previous visit, i.e. that a more detailed definition of the confinement room was necessary (at least of its equipment) and its legal arrangement in the case of its use for disciplinary or separate living reasons; • The NPM recommends that possibilities be studied for vacant workplaces in the newly set up organisational unit to be filled as soon as possible. A total of 18 recommendations were prepared. At the time of preparing this report (31 January 2018), we are still waiting for the response. 76 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