28 THE GREEK OMBUDSMAN achieved in all detention facilities in the country, the NPM considers that it is imperative to take individual educational needs into account in any decision to transfer a prisoner. viii. Availability of entertainment, employment and training Like schools, opportunities for leisure, employment and vocational training are challenging gaps that need to be bridged between detention facilities that provide impressive opportunities and other that provide fewer ones. Among other things, the NPM points out: • In the Trikala Detention Facility, the Mental Health Seminars and the vocational training programmes. • At the Nea Alikarnassos Detention Facility, the operation of a nursery, a soap factory and a woodworking workshop, as well as cooking courses. • In the Nafplio Detention Facility and the Adult Rural Detention Facility of Tiryntha, the collaboration with the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Peloponnese. • At the Patras Detention Facility, the operation of a theatre group in collaboration with the Municipal Regional Theatre. • In the Corinth Detention Facility, educational excursions to museums and other cultural sites, but only for juvenile detainees. In contrast, in spite of availability or lack of suitable facilities, the Chania and Grevena detention facilities, the Rural Prison of Agias and the Special Juvenile Detention Facility of Volos lack entertainment and training programmes or workshops and are limited to gymnastics and sports activities, improvised or organised in cooperation with local operators, while elsewhere, as in the Tripolis Detention Facility, no systematic activity is offered. ix. Transfer to rural detention facilities The changes made during the last five years to the conditions for transferring to rural detention facilities were primarily aimed at tackling the overcrowding of prisoners in other detention facilities. The consequence, however, of the new regulation was the management of "two-tier" detainees in rural detention facilities and the confusion that this caused to prisoners with regard to the institution, since this type of prison demonstrates a greater degree of trust in those being detained in a semi-free living situation, but this does not necessarily apply to the entire body of prisoners. However, in order to