in the same cell with the infected man were quarantined within the premises of the establishment. One positive and five negative results were obtained after their testing. Due to the fact that the inmate infected with the coronavirus had only two more days of imprisonment to be served, an agreement with the sanitary inspectorate was concluded, pursuant to which the Director of the prison in Głogów granted him a leave and the inmate was transported to the isolation facility in Bolesławiec206. Personnel (staffing situation) Despite the fact that prison officers and other staff members are, in fact, outsiders and are therefore more exposed to the coronavirus infection, the number of the infections in the establishments was low. As in the case of inmates, in most establishments no infections were found among the officers207. However, due to preventive quarantines as well as leaves taken by the employees (e.g. due to the need to provide personal care to their children due to the closure of schools), penitentiary establishments faced greater shortages of staff. A positive example is the solution introduced in the Sztum prison where questionnaires were conducted among the officers and other employees in order to verify the staffing needs and problems. The results of the surveys and the identified problems related to the pandemic resulted in the introduction of a shift system called 6+2, instead of the standard 8-hour shift system. Under that system, for 2 hours per shift all employees could remotely perform any activities that could be performed in this way208. Detainees from the establishments to which the remote monitoring visits were held did not report any significant slow-down in the operation of the penitentiary establishments during the pandemic. In general, they did not feel that the number of officers had decreased to a degree making it excessively difficult to exercise their duties during the pandemic. Inmates did not report any increased aggression or concern on their part due to the COVID-19 pandemic or to the potentially increased workload on the officers. According to the reports of directors of most of the establishments, the limitations on the hours of performance of certain activities resulted in the possibility to settle the already accumulated overtime hours. Due to the restrictions on people’s movement both outside and inside the establishments, the 206 See: Report on the NMPT visit to the prison in Głogów (KMP.571.23.2020). In prison no. 1 in Grudziądz, the infection was confirmed in one of the officers (KMP.571.12.2020), while in the prison in Głogów, the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was detected in two officers (KMP.571.23.2020). In other establishments, by the time of the visit, no cases of infection among officers or employees had been recorded. See Reports on the NMPT visits to the remand prisons in: Kraków (KMP.571.9.2020), Wrocław (KMP.571.11.2020) and Miedzyrzecz (KMP.571.15.2020), and the prisons in Czerwony Bór (KMP.571.25) 2020), Czarne (KMP.571.21.2020), Łupków (KMP.571.26.2020), Barczewo (KMP.571.22.2020), Nysa (KMP.571.19.2020) ), Rzeszów (KMP.571.15.2020), Jastrzębie-Zdrój (KMP.571.2020) and Krzywaniec (KMP.571.13.2020). 207 208 See: Report on the NMPT visit to the prison in Sztum (KMP. 571.10.2020). 82