2014-2015 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE dressed to the director of the Correction Home regarding possibly inappropriate behaviour of officers were registered separately; a staff member responsible for the control of drawing up of replies to inmates’ complaints was designated; the procedure was approved and persons were designated responsible for elimination of faults of various types and the control of performance of these works; windows were glazed in temporary detention and penalty isolation cells (it was not possible to ensure the established indicator of natural lighting, because that would require the reconstruction of a building). The Prison Department conducted targeted inspections in imprisonment institutions regarding the registration of detainees’ requests, applications and complaints, provided recommendations to imprisonment institutions regarding filming of searches and the procedure for keeping records, provided for nutrition of detainees according to a special dietary menu, analysed in detail measures envisaged and performed in 2015 related to recruitment of specialists to health care services of subordinate institutions, and drew up an action plan as to how to fill in vacant positions of health care specialists. their consent to it; whether persons who were imposed with the solitary confinement penalty were visited by a health care specialist on a regular basis. Particular institutions were also given other recommendations with regard to ensuring appropriate, safe and secure detention conditions, appropriate and sufficient provision of the necessary items, organisation of nutrition, adaptation of premises for the disabled, properly informing inmates of their rights and obligations, organisation of inmates’ leisure, training for the staff, etc. Recommendations following inspections in Imprisonment Institutions In 2014, the Seimas Ombudsmen assessed the human rights situation in ten places of detention and accommodation of foreigners: the Foreigners’ Registration Centre, the Refugees Reception Centre as well as frontier stations of Vilnius and Ignalina Frontier Districts (Gintaras Žagunis, Dieveniškės, Pavoverė, Švenčionys, Adutiškis, Tverečius, Puškai frontier stations and the Headquarters of Ignalina Frontier District). In 2015, the Seimas Ombudsmen assessed the human rights situation in three imprisonment institutions (two correction facilities and one remand prison-closed prison) regarding the human rights situation of vulnerable groups in imprisonment institutions: Lukiškės Remand Prison – Closed Prison, Kaunas Remand Prison for Minors – Correction House and Panevėžys Correction House (20 November 2015 Report No 2015/1-99). PLACES OF DETENTION AND ACCOMMODATION OF FOREIGNERS The majority of recommendations addressed to imprisonment institutions were related to filling vacant positions and ensuring dietary or special nutrition for medical indications. Other recommendations were also provided, namely related to appropriate provision of health care services to inmates: there were doubts as to whether inmates were always properly informed of the prescribed treatment and expressed The following are the main problems and human rights violations identified: 31

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