CHANCELLOR OF JUSTICE AS NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM PART III PART II PART I concerning the department for mothers and children. The Chancellor recommended to explain additionally to the prisoners at the department for mothers and children that they had the right to submit the clothing provided by the prison to the prison service to be washed free of charge. Under the Imprisonment Act, prisoners are ensured an opportunity to read national daily newspapers and magazines. On this basis, the Chancellor recommended to the prison to guarantee that national daily papers, including in Russian, which are offered by the prison are also made available for reading at the department for mothers and children. The Imprisonment Act also obliges the prison service to fit out separate premises for pregnant women at the prison and to organise care for children. In the Chancellor’s opinion, this means care in the wider sense, including ensuring fully nutritional food for children staying at the prison together with mothers and that breastfeeding mothers do not have to suffer an empty stomach or feeling of hunger. The Chancellor recommended to the prison to ensure constant monitoring of catering of breastfeeding women at the department and, if necessary, even without a person’s request, intervene and reorganise the provision of meals to a breastfeeding prisoner. The Chancellor also recommended to analyse the daily schedule and catering at the department for women and children and find a possibility to offer an additional mealtime to breastfeeding mothers, so that the interval between the dinner and breakfast does not become too long. PART IV 3.11.2. Conclusions and recommendation by the experts The medical experts participating in the inspection visit assessed the living conditions and the growth environment of the children staying at the prison, the appropriateness and sufficiency of the health services for children on the basis of interviews with mothers and the prison medical staff and health cards of the children, as well as the health, physical and mental development of the children in prison. In addition, on the basis of interviews with the staff of the social department of the prison the experts analysed the level of social protection of the children. In the opinion of the experts, the growth environment for the children and the catering were satisfactory. The children are ensured adequate health examination and good medical care both in case of acute illnesses and chronic diseases. The experts made the following proposals based on their observations during the inspection: 1) to involve more specialists in the monitoring of children, for which the experts also offered their own help; 2) to involve a children’s psychologist regularly as a specialist; 3) to expand the children’s communication environment; 4) to adopt growth curves of Estonian children in the health cards; 5) to enable a general practitioner dealing with a child access to the child’s digital health record in order to ensure an adequate overview of the child’s consultations outside the hospital; 6) to organise, both in case of a mother’s scheduled release or release on parole from the prison, a roundtable meeting with the child’s mother (if necessary, also involving other family members), the prison social workers, medical staff and child protection worker of the place of residence prior to sending the mother and child home, so as to ensure good health of the child and a diverse and safe growth environment also outside the prison. 24 The Chancellor notes with regret that several recommendations of the experts are the same as those made after the 2010 visit, as the previous recommendations have not been complied with (growth curves of the children, involvement of a child psychologist). The Chancellor recommended to the prison to implement the recommendations made by the experts involved in the inspection.