security in the establishment. The tasks of the team included the analysis of the current guidelines concerning the epidemiological situation in Poland, the situation in the establishment (including the psychological condition of the prisoners and the officers) and the formulation of conclusions and recommendations on counteracting the spread of the coronavirus. At the remand prison in Białystok, a team was established for permanent cooperation with the national, voivodeship (i.e regional) and poviat (i.e. county) sanitary inspectors in order to regularly adjust the activities to the guidelines published by the sanitary inspectorates212. The director of the Bydgoszcz-Fordon prison announced that its health and safety unit runs a website for the staff members, where all necessary information regarding the epidemic risk is posted. The information is also available in paper copies at designated points in the establishment. Additionally, an information campaign concerning the epidemiological situation was carried out in the form of posters and e-mails213. An example of an establishment that had not established any special team to coordinate the activities undertaken in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic is the prison in Potulice. Instead, every day, the daily order contained information that required the officers and other staff members of the establishment to read the current recommendations of the Chief Sanitary Inspector (GIS), available on the GIS website, as well as the information on the Polish National Health Service website. Officers and other staff members were also required to immediately read the applicable "Procedure to be followed in the event of a suspected coronavirus infection in the prison in Potulice" and „Procedure to be followed in the event of a suspected coronavirus infection in the Potulice prison’s external ward". In case of doubt as to the content of the procedures, explanations were provided by designated officers of the hospital ward and healthcare unit located within the establishment214. All the visited establishments had introduced special procedures and guidelines for the disinfection of common spaces, toilets, association rooms and devices intended for common use, i.e. telephones and computers used for communication via Skype215. The problem with the availability of disinfectants was reported solely by inmates at the Warszawa-Białołęka remand prison. 212 See: Report on the NMPT visit to the remand prison in Białystok (KMP.571.17.2020). 213 See: Report on the NMPT visit to the prison in Bydgoszcz-Fordon (KMP.571.24.2020). 214 See: Report on the NMPT visit to the prison in Potulice (KMP.571.8.2020). See: Reports on the NMPT visits to the remand prisons in Międzyrzecz (KMP.571.16.2020), Białystok (KMP.571.17.2020), Kraków (KMP.571.9.2020) and Wrocław (KMP.571.11. 2020), and the prisons in Barczewo (KMP.571.22.2020), Bydgoszcz-Fordon (KMP.571.24.2020), Chełm (KMP.571.14.2020), Czerwony Bór (KMP.571.25 .2020), Krzywaniec (KMP.571.13.2020) and Rzeszów (KMP.571.15.2020). 215 84