The appliances are old and worn; living premises require regular, sometimes capital refurbishment, networks of communal use are in similar condition; • Most general cells of remand prisons are dirty; there are leakages and mold on the walls; there is virtually no free space due to excess crowding, anti-sanitary conditions and unpleasant smell; • Sanitary facilities are in unsatisfactory technical condition; ventilation and lighting are insufficient or absent etc. According to the legislation in relation to access to hygiene items by persons in remand prisons, the latter have the right to purchase or receive in parcels/packages, use and store items of first necessity, periodicals, literature, food etc. At the same time, there is insufficient attention paid to improvement of general hygiene in remand prisons, access to water and sanitary conditions, as well as personal hygiene items contrary to requirements of legislation and international standards on treatment of prisoners. Zaporizhzhya remand prison Kyiv remand prison Vilnyansk remand prison Odesa remand prison 133