minutes. Due to the restrictions introduced and the suspension of regular visits the talks could take place every day. There were no connection time limits during the summer holiday period when the NMPT monitoring visit took place. From the beginning of March, the possibility of video calls via the Messenger application was also introduced. Several girls at one time could use the computer room under the supervision of an IT teacher. Due to the lack of confidentiality of such conversations and the fact that some of the juveniles used this opportunity to speak to their friends whom they should not contact, the Messenger calls were given up after some time. In order to ensure that the juveniles contacted only those they were permitted to contact via Messenger, a contact list (for telephone calls and for postal letters) had to be mad by a legal guardian of every juvenile and delivered to the facility at the time of the juvenile’s arrival. The interviews with individual juveniles at the JEC in Mszana Dolna showed that they spent their remote contact time mainly using the internet, including online communicators, or making telephone calls (between 10:30 am and 8:00 pm). Each educational group had also access to a portable telephone and a computer with an internet connection. The boys could also use their own cell phones. Before the pandemic, access to private cell phones was dependent on the juveniles’ behaviour (the socalled social rehabilitation level). During the pandemic, this requirement was abolished and, after breakfast, the educators were giving the cell phones (from the deposit) to the boys who could use them practically all day. As for the JEC’s landline telephone, theoretically the conversations were limited to 10 minutes per day, but the limit was not observed too strictly. The educators allowed the boys to have longer conversations (they usually ordered to end the conversation if it lasted about 40 minutes, to avoid a queue of other juveniles). The centre’s telephone was not used too frequently. The cell phones or Messenger chats were preferred. At the JEC in Łobżenica, the boys also spent most of their contact time using private cell phones with internet access. Due to the pandemic, during the summer holiday season they were permitted to use their own telephones between 11 am and 9 pm. As a rule, the possibility of using one's own cell phone depended on the boy's behaviour (it was a privilege). The boys did not report any limits on such conversations. Both the juveniles and the staff stated that the boys' contacts were not subject to control in this regard. The strictest rules on contacts with the outside world were introduced in two JECs302. In JEC no. 3 in Łódź, juveniles had access to their cell phones for one hour per day, at 8 p.m., and for two hours on weekends. Juveniles who had no private cell phones could use the facility's telephone. The girls reported that the use of cell phones was possible only for those who had been staying in the facility for 302 JEC no. 3 in Łódź and JEC in Łańcut. 116