Report on the Performance of Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2016 that constitutional and legal rights of all persons deprived of their liberty are respected during their stay in the penal institution. 1.2. Performing NPM tasks in the prison system In 2016, we made unannounced visits to prisons in Zagreb, Rijeka, Varaždin, Pula and Split, as well as to Šibenik State and County Prison and state prisons in Glina and Lepoglava. Our visit to Pula County Prison was of regular nature, whereas other visits were aimed at determining the extent to which warnings and recommendations provided after the previous visits, had been implemented. In addition, we evaluated the following: the extent to which the rights of prisoners on remand are being respected in connection with their contact with the outside world, accessibility of buildings to disabled persons, and conditions under which children responsible for criminal or misdemeanour offences are deprived of their liberty. The representatives of Disability Ombudswoman Office and Ombudswoman for Children Office as well as independent experts also participated in the visits. After the visits, 13 new warnings and 77 recommendations were issued. Healthcare In comparison to previous years, minor positive changes have been recorded at the level of individual penal institutions, but this does not reflect the situation of the whole system. Dental office in Zagreb County Prison has been renovated and provided with latest equipment, as well as the one in Glina State Prison, which is still closed because the Prison has not concluded an agreement with the dentist yet. Premises where dentists employed by Lepoglava State Prison work, are still in poor condition, given that no new equipment has been procured and that they work using old, worn-out machinery. If the Ministry of Justice wishes to keep this prison equipped with a dental service, it is necessary to urgently procure modern equipment and instruments. Premises and equipment of prison infirmaries are still insufficiently aligned with minimum conditions necessary for providing healthcare services, which must be met by every healthcare institution engaged in providing healthcare to persons deprived Premises and equipment of their liberty. In this way, prisoners are in a less favourable of prison infirmaries are position than persons who have not been deprived of their still insufficiently aligned liberty, when it comes to exercising one’s right to healthcare. with minimum conditions Due to unfilled systematized job positions, healthcare necessary for providing departments of penal institutions are unable to ensure that every healthcare services. day of the week, daily medications are distributed exclusively by healthcare workers, which is unacceptable and may harm the health of prisoners. This is something that commonly occurs in Pula County Prison, where judicial police officers distribute medications on weekends and on holidays, and the situation is similar in the Rijeka County 11