1.4 Visits to prisons, a juvenile prison and a youth detention centre all of them who wished to take part in an interview; on the other day three groups of participants of the visit by the NPM did the remaining inspection and interviews with prisoners and after that a concluding interview with the management officers. On the same day, the expert under contract examined outpatient rooms and held a personal interview with a general practitioner, stomatologist and psychiatrist and with detainees who wished to take part in an interview. Upon each visit, statistical data on the number of persons detained, the number of prisoners and the persons in compliance detention during our visit was obtained. At the time of the visits, there were out of a total of 1167 prisoners held, there were 992 convicted persons (including convicted persons who served a penalty for detention pursuant to Article 12 of Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions Act and convicted persons who were in house arrest, convicted persons who were in the arrival phase, convicted persons on the run, convicted persons in a hospital, convicted persons in the suspension of implementing a prison sentence, convicted persons in forensic psychiatry), 99 detainees and 16 persons in compliance detention. Reports on individual visits and main findings made by the NPM in this regard have been published on the Ombudsman’s official web site (although only some in English),whilst only the most important circumstances discovered by the NPM in 2013 related to this field have been pointed out in this Report. Findings from visits - examples of good practice and recommendations to improve conditions It is encouraging that the situation or practice in the institutions or their units deserved particular praise in 50 cases, whereby the leading position was taken by Koper Prison achieving ten of such compliments, Maribor Prison - Murska Sobota Open Unit with eight and Ig Prison with seven approvals. Especially Dob pri Mirni Prison - Puščava Open Unit and Dob Prison - Slovenska vas Half-Open Unit need to be pointed out which needed no special recommendations or proposals that the units should accept for the improvement of the condition, because it was established that actually all recommendations of the NPM from the last visit were taken into consideration and were realised during the visit. We especially want to point out Koper Prison where regular defects and repairs are assured according to the system of reports that are kept in the record of the system of reports on defects and are regularly eliminated. Ig Prison must be particularly commended where the effort of the institution to provide as many free-time activities as possible is most varied in comparison to other institutions and the variety of these activities is especially welcome when not all persons are provided with work. Also Maribor Prison - Murska Sobota Unit must be commended where it was established after the visit of the NPM that outpatient room was placed into a room previously used as an archive room located next to the detention room. The new room enables a doctor to be separated from a nurse which means better conditions for doctor’s work and provides necessary confidentiality during a medical examination. Also Dob pri Mirni - Puščava Open Unit must be particularly commended: firstly, the institution provides work for all convicted persons; secondly, the room of a pedagogue or social worker has been furnished with the necessary working equipment (a computer, a photocopier and a printer) and appropriate working conditions have been provided; third, on 22 April 2010, the Head of the Unit has issued the Instructions for use of Electronic Communication number 02/2010. It is also emphasized by the NPM that its recommendation has been partly realised in Maribor Prison - Rogoza Open Unit where appropriate grab bars and a plastic seat for accommodation of the convicted persons who are movement impaired have been placed into a bathroom and into a shower next to the prison. This year, confusion on use or on price of telephone has arisen in some institutions which were visited (Maribor Prison, Dob pri Mirni Prison - Closed Unit). According to this the practice of Maribor Prison is emphasized which turned to the company with which it entered into a contract and gained the necessary information which were published on the notice board and with which all prisoners were notified - that is considered an example of good practice. On the other hand, it also needs to be pointed out that Maribor Prison was the one location where the most proposals and recommendations by the NPM to improve conditions and treatment with persons deprived of their liberty were submitted, specifically, 25; in this regard, Ig Prison and Koper Prison also stood out with 22 of such proposals and recommendations, and Ljubljana Prison - Novo mesto Unit with 15 proposals or recommendations. The total of 107 proposals or recommendations were submitted by the NPM for all places of incarceration in 2013. It was especially proposed by the NPM that Ig Prison examines the options of arrangement of a special IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2013 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 77