The prison had a capacity of 564 places. It was occupied with 445 inmates on the day of the visit. The Joint Commission inspected the penal detention wing with sanitary areas, the remand detention department, the admission wing, the visiting area, the transport department, specially-secured cells containing no dangerous objects, the fixation facility, other segregation rooms, the control centre, the yard area, the waiting area outside the medical dispensary in the medical department and the clothing store. During the visit, the Joint Commission held discussions with the prison governor, with staff members of various departments and with the staff council. The Commission spoke with several inmates, including two who were in solitary confinement at the time of the visit, and with the inmates’ interest group. It also inspected the files of those inmates who were being held in solitary confinement. Positive finding Solitary confinement is not executed in a separated area of the prison, but the inmates remain in solitary confinement cells in the respective wing. Cellular confinement was not applied. Recommendations by the Joint Commission and the reaction of the Hesse Ministry of Justice, for Integration and Europe After solitary confinement has been ended, measures should immediately be taken to re-integrate inmates into community life in the prison. In general terms, the Joint Commission proposed to suitably examine the need to maintain solitary confinement at least monthly.23 Simply reporting to the supervisory authority is inadequate in the view of the Joint Commission. In order to improve the overview of circumstances of detention, special security measures should be recorded in the statistics. There were 34 instances of accommodation in the specially-secured cell containing no dangerous objects in 2011, and 17 so far in 2012. These figures are comparatively high. The special nature of accommodation in the specially-secured cell containing no dangerous objects is accounted for in some Federal Länder by all the officers concerned being made aware of which inmates have been in this measure since when. Reaction: The recommendations of the Joint Commission were being taken into account by Kassel I prison. Cf. also Arloth, Frank, StVollzG, 3rd ed. 2011, section 90 marginal no. 3 with further references; Annual Report 2010/2011, loc. cit., p. 50. 23 50