• The NPM recommends that the prison studies the possibility that prisoners who have justified reasons to do so (e.g. calls outside the EU) use the videoconferencing room for accessing call applications, which the institution already uses and which already has devices to enable maintenance and security (including recording and storage of all types of electronic communication). • The NPM recommends that the prison studies the possibility of offering prisoners the opportunity to complete the course for a driving licence (at least the theoretical part), as proposed by individual prisoners. • The NPM again recommends that the prison and the general office of the Prison Administration take all necessary measures for providing work to as many prisoners as possible. Perhaps it would be sensible to consider a self-sufficiency project or, as the prison has a woodworking workshop, that individual prisoners be included in this line of work and make the furniture and equipment required by the prison or for other purposes. • The NPM recommends that damaged or obsolete equipment be repaired or replaced as soon as possible, in accordance with the prison’s financial capacities. • The NPM recommends that the walls in Department I be painted on a regular basis as a priority. • The NPM again recommends that the possibilities for installing wooden phone booths in Department III (and in other departments where so required or requested) be studied. • The NPM recommends that the prison again informs Trebnje Health Centre that it should implement the recommendation made by the medical expert during the previous visit, i.e. that a general practitioner should be available in the prison every working day, and in any case on the day of admittance. • The NPM recommends that the prison makes sure that the meals served to prisoners in Department I are kept appropriately warm. • The NPM recommends that the Prison Administration studies the possibilities of employing additional judicial police officers. • The NPM would like to know how judicial police officers are provided with the opportunity to clean their equipment and asks for information on the use of these allocated funds. Below are the individual most frequently noted deficiencies or mistakes for which recommendations have been provided so that they can be eliminated.38 Joint findings with recommendations a) Furnishing and maintenance of facilities We recommended that Ljubljana Prison – the Ig Open Unit and Ig Prison study the possibility of replacing old windows or at least seeing to additional sealing, not least to improve heating efficiency. The Prison Administration said that it agreed with the findings; however, window sealing had previously been checked, and additional sealing arranged where required and window frames replaced as far as possible. 38  All recommendations made during the visits to prisons or their remote units and Radeče CF in 2017 are available on the Ombudsman’s website: http://www.varuh-rs.si/o-instituciji/podrocja-dela-varuha/varuh-kot-drzavni-preventivni-mehanizem/. 90 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