2014-2015 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE police station informed that 5 recommendations had been implemented: a permission-hygiene passport was received; beds were removed from cells to ensure that the area of the cell complied with the requirements; cooperation with primary health care institutions regarding the provision of a psychologist’s services was ongoing; and drying rooms were installed for drying the laundry of detainees. While still waiting for appropriate funding from the Police Department, the following recommendations remained unimplemented: regarding installation of video surveillance cameras in interrogation premises, adaptation of the entrance to the disabled, repairs of premises of sanitary units, and reconstruction of courtyards used for taking a walk. Vilnius Correction House (Rasų Street Sector and Sniego Street Sector); Kaunas Remand Prison). IMPRISONMENT INSTITUTIONS 3. Regarding assessment of proportionality of the use of special measures – No assessment of proportionality of the use of special measures was provided in the conclusions regarding disciplinary investigations into the use of special measures. The following are the main problems and human rights violations identified: 1. Regarding vacant staff positions – In some of imprisonment institutions, there were vacant staff positions. 2. Regarding officers’ behaviour in cases of self-harm by inmates – In one imprisonment institution, there were cases recorded when persons were kept handcuffed for a particularly long period of time because they were harming themselves due to unwilingness to be transported with convoy. In 2014, the Seimas Ombudsmen assessed the human rights situation in four imprisonment institutions (two correction facilities and two remand prisons) (Marijampolė Correction House; 4. Regarding performance of searches – In certain imprisonment institutions, neither the supervising inmate of the cell nor any other person detained in the cell were present during the performance of searches of persons and premises; searches were filmed inappropriately or were not filmed at all. Regarding detention conditions – A part of premises of imprisonment institutions was inaccessible for the disabled; the minimum living space per person (5 m2) was often not ensured; there was a lack of both natural and artificial lighting; there was also a lack of furniture and hard inventory; adequate cleanliness of sanitary units was not ensured; in some cases smoking inmates were 26