E/CN.4/2005/62/Add.2 page 23 disabilities), such restrictions have been completely abolished. Inmates of young offenders’ institutions, convicted persons with group I or II disabilities, and suspects and accused persons are provided with articles of personal hygiene free of charge. The length of daily walks for persons being held in punishment cells at remand centres has been increased by one hour. There are provisions on the confidentiality of meetings between suspects and accused persons with their defence counsel, and on their right to telephone conversations. Suspects and accused persons have the right to voluntary medical insurance, and persons held in custody receive prompt medical examinations (including by staff of other medical institutions) when their health deteriorates or when they receive bodily injuries. The right of convicted persons to telephone conversations has been expanded, and there is no restriction on the number of such conversations, provided that the technical means are available. Persons held in institutions of the penal correction system have the constitutional right to make complaints and applications, without any restrictions, to any instance concerning violations of their legitimate rights and interests. Applications and complaints addressed to bodies that oversee the penitentiary system are sent uncensored to the addressee within 24 hours. The Ministry of Justice is steadfastly pursuing its policy of discontinuing the use of cruel forms of pressure on individuals. Confidence is being established between staff and convicted persons, and priority is being given to pedagogical and psychological methods of influencing lawbreakers and solving problems of social rehabilitation. The reform of the penal correction system and the amendment of Russian legislation in the light of the requirements and recommendations of international and European standards and rules confirm that the Russian Federation is fulfilling the provisions of the basic international legal instruments concerning the human rights of detainees that it has ratified. 107. Recommendation (h) stated: Provision should be made for sufficient food of palatable quality to be available to those whom the State deprives of the means to fend for themselves. 108. The Government reported that budgetary allocations for the provision of food to persons held in institutions of the penal correction system have increased 4.5 times in comparison with 1998. Persons held in custody are provided with free meals that are adequate for maintaining their health and strength, in accordance with the norms established by the Government. The standard daily food allowance for persons sentenced to deprivation of liberty, and also persons in remand centres, was approved by Government Decision No. 935 of 1 December 1992. The minimum nutritional standards and minimum standards for the material and living conditions of persons sentenced to deprivation of liberty are set out in Government Decision No. 833 of 8 July 1997. In order to implement the aforementioned decisions, on 4 May 2001 the Ministry of Justice issued Order No. 136 on nutritional standards for persons sentenced to deprivation of liberty and persons held in remand centres of the penal correction system of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. The Order contains standard daily food allowances for non-working convicted persons transferred to punishment cells, special cells, special units or isolation cells of correctional institutions of the Ministry of Justice. Convicted pregnant women, convicted breastfeeding mothers, convicted minors, convicted persons who are ill or have group I or II disabilities receive higher food allowances. Men sentenced to deprivation of liberty are allowed to receive parcels and printed material in the amount established by the Penal Enforcement Code. There are no restrictions on the number of parcels or printed materials that women and young offenders in reformatories may receive. In addition, convicted persons and persons held in remand centres have the right to acquire additional foodstuffs in shops (stalls) of institutions and remand centres. In order to improve the diet of convicted persons in institutions