An exception was the prison in Nysa where religious services and individual religious meetings were held, but in accordance with the sanitary guidelines. Inmates were allowed to watch religious services broadcast on television in common rooms located in the wards222. A common solution was to introduce limitations on the use of association rooms and cultural and educational facilities. In most establishments, only the common rooms within the wards could be used. As the prisoners pointed out, they were very poorly furnished. Cultural and educational activities and their replacement activities are discussed below in a separate section. A significant change caused by the epidemic was introduced in the prison in Barczewo. It is a closed-type establishment but according to the Barczewo Prison Director’s order of 3 February 2020, cells for convicts from groups P2 and R2 remained open during daytime. On 12 March 2020, the Barczewo Prison Director ordered the cells to be closed during daytime, due to the epidemic risk existing in Poland. As the director informed, the limitation was introduced based on Article 247(2) of the Criminal Executive Code, pursuant to a consent of a penitentiary judge223. Inmates held in the ward that between 3 February and 12 March operated as a semi-open ward pointed out that the restriction was ungrounded as inmates living in the ward meet on daily basis anyway, during walks and when using the common room. In their opinion, if the doors of the cells were open during daytime, this would not increase the risk of the spread of the coronavirus. Additional rights of prisoners, introduced in connection with the COVID19 pandemic Because of the suspension of the visits, in some establishments the duration of inmates’ telephone calls was extended. In most of the establishments the daily limit was increased from 5 to 8 minutes224. In the prison in Barczewo the increase applied only to weekends (from 5 to 7 minutes), and in the prison in Czerwony Bór it applied only to weekdays (the limit was increased by 5 minutes)225. 222 See: Report on the NMPT visit to the prisons in Nysa (KMP.571.19.2020). 223 See: Report on the NMPT visit to the prisons in Barczewo (KMP.571.22.2020). See: Reports on the NMPT visits to the prisons in Potulice (KMP.571.8.2020) and Rzeszów (KMP.571.15.2020), the remand prison in Białystok (KMP.571.17.2020), prison no.1 in Grudziądz (KMP. 571/12/2020) and the prison in Rzeszów (KMP. 571.15.2020). In the prison in Czarne, the daily time limit of telephone conversations during the pandemic was 10 minutes (KMP.571.21.2020). In the Sztum prison, the daily limit was extended by one minute, i.e. from five to six minutes. See: Report on the NMPT visit to the prison in Sztum (KMP. 571.10.2020). In the prison in Krzywaniec, the daily limit was 7 minutes in the closed ward and 12 minutes in the semi-open ward (KMP.571.13.2020). 224 See: Report on the NMPT visit to the prisons in Barczewo (KMP.571.22.2020) and Czerwony Bór (KMP.571.25.2020). 225 87