2014-2015 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE gion is not ensured; appropriate conditions are not created for cooking; inmates are given dirty cutlery. not use their courtyard for taking a walk; a courtyard intended for taking a walk which is assigned to a penalty isolation cell is small and dark. 7. Regarding provision of health care services – Medical case histories do not have entries confirming consent and signatures concerning health check-ups; the number of positions of the staff working in the Health Care Service does not correspond with the number of positions provided for in legal acts; due to vacant positions or part-time employees the Health Care Service may not be able to provide all envisaged health care services; personal health care services are not always available during the night; complaints regarding provision of dental care services are not sufficiently taken into consideration. 3. Regarding the environment and privacy – Institutions’ entrances to premises and premises themselves are not fully adapted to the disabled; rubber bats openly carried by security officers do not create a psychological climate suitable for the staff and inmates. 4. Regarding detention and hygiene conditions – The minimum living space per person provided for in legal acts is not ensured; newly arrived inmates are temporarily kept in cells smaller than 2 m²; conditions in quarantine premises are to be considered as below human dignity; there is mould on the walls and the ceiling; there is no appropriate lighting; cleanness is not ensured in sanitary units, privacy is not ensured when using a bidet; mechanisms of sanitary units did not function or were damaged; conditions are not provided for inmates to wash themselves after work. 8. Regarding provision of information and examination of appeals – Inmates are not appropriately familiarized with their rights and obligations; proper conditions are not created for submission of appeals to the administration of an institution. 9. Regarding special rights – There is no possibility to cover the expenses of third parties for transportation of spouses, both of which are serving a sentence of imprisonment, to a correction house where a long-term meeting will take place and back. 5. Regarding material and domestic supplies – Worn-out, damaged furniture; sufficient amount of hard inventory is not ensured; conditions are not provided to keep clothes and other personal items; worn-out floors; poor condition of soft inventory: stained, visually dirty, torn mattresses and blankets; when a person is moved from a remand prison to a correction house, he/she is not given the necessary personal hygiene means. 10. Regarding employment, leisure activities and implementation of social rehabilitation – The right to work of the disabled is not ensured; there is a lack of jobs; inmates lack leisure activities out of cells/residential premises; there is a lack of programmes for the development of maternity skills; women inmates are not 6. Regarding organization of nutrition and conditions for cooking – Nutrition of adequate value and in conformity with professed reli- 28

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