At the Białystok remand prison, the limit was 15 minutes a week but inmates informed it could be extended by the facility director at the inmate’s request. The directors of the establishments reported that because of the suspension of the visits, consent to use the Skype communicator was granted, as a rule, to all inmates. An exception was the remand prison in Kraków where such contacts could not be used by remand prisoners and by other persons who did not have an individual Skype account. In that situation the inmates had no real possibility of maintaining contact with the outside world. This is of concern as inmates could have used Skype also to communicate with their lawyers. Preventing inmates from using online communicators in such a situation may be perceived as a violation of their right to contact a lawyer or other representative, provided for in Article 8(3) of the Criminal Executive Code.233 One of the correction officers in the semi-open ward at the prison in Czarne informed that a prisoner from Georgia, who is deaf, was allowed to maintain daily contacts via Skype with his family in his country of origin. This is another example of how the establishments adjusted their functioning to the individual needs of the inmates234. Free time organization in the period of restrictions In order to compensate the inmates for the difficulties experienced because of the introduced restrictions, the establishments organized various forms of activities possible under the sanitary regime. Inmates interviewed by representatives of the NMPT gave the following examples: • lager numbers of books that could be borrowed from the library; • more frequent programmes on various subjects, available on the prison radio; • additional recreation and sports equipment, games, etc. available in the association rooms; • thematic contests and sports competitions. In some establishments, the possibility of spending time actively outdoors was increased. Inmates in the Czerwony Bór prison had access to the football, volleyball and basketball pitches within the establishment’s area. One of the prisoners reported that he had participated in a first aid course235. In the prison in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, each cell building has a separate walking yard. Due to the fact that it is a semi-open type establishment, the walking yards were available from the morning roll-call to the evening one. There were no restrictions on going outdoors. Also, inmates from each call building 233 See: Report on the NMPT visit to the remand prison in Kraków (KMP.571.9.2020). 234 See: Report on the NMPT visit to the prison in Czarne (KMP.571.21.2020). 235 See: Report on the NMPT visit to the prison in Czerwony Bór (KMP.571.25.2020). 89