CAT/OP/ROU/1/Add.1 isolation for up to 10 days is applied only in those situations when serious disciplinary offenses have been repeatedly committed, as well as for committing very serious disciplinary offenses. According to the Regulation for implanting the Law no. 254/2013: – – – – – – the disciplinary sanction involving isolation is usually enforced individually in the maximum security sections of the prisons or in specially arranged rooms, regardless the punishment regime where the sanctioned person is. the rooms for the enforcement of the disciplinary sanction involving isolation have natural lighting and ventilation, are provided with heating systems, water supply and other facilities necessary to maintain the hygiene; the inmates executing disciplinary sanction involving isolation are examined daily by the detention place’s physician. At detention place’s physician suggestion, the disciplinary sanction involving isolation can be interrupted for health reasons; the inmates executing the disciplinary sanction involving isolation may exercise their right of petition, correspondence and information through written press, receive food according to the rules in force, medical assistance and daily walk of at least one hour, in specially arranged spaces, in open air, separated from the other inmates. Smoking is allowed only during the walking activity; during executing the disciplinary sanction involving isolation, the inmates are not involved in work activities, do not participate in cultural, educational and sports activities, are deprived of the possibility to keep and use radio-TV and IT devices; during the execution of the disciplinary sanction involving isolation, inmates are suspended from the right to receive goods, to receive visits, except for visits by the lawyer, officials or diplomatic representatives, to make phone calls and to shop, besides the necessary goods for petitioning, correspondence, smoking and individual hygiene. In all prisons (excluding education and detention centres) in 2016, 1,071 sanctions involving isolation for up to 10 days were applied. Considering that in 2016 the prison system registered an approximative number of 40,000 coming and going people, the maximum percentage of people who received a sanction involving isolation for up to 10 days is of 2.7%. The temporary accommodation in the protection room and the supervision of the inmates through surveillance cameras were provided by the Law, being measures that should not be confused with the disciplinary sanction involving isolation. Thus, if there are indications that an inmate intends to use self-aggression or to suicide, injure another person, destroy goods, or seriously disturb the order, the prison director may order that he/she be accommodated individually in a special designed and endowed room. The measure can be applied until the state that generated it ceases, but for no more than 24 hours. During the stay in the security room, the inmate is permanently under observation with surveillance cameras. In the case of accommodation of an inmate in the protection room on grounds of preventing self-aggression or suicide, the medical staff has the obligation to monitor and evaluate the inmate’s condition, whenever necessary but not less than once every 4 hours. During the stay in the protection room, the inmate receives psychological counselling. The inmates accommodated in the protection room shall have their meals and satisfy their physiological needs in a place other than the one where they are staying. 37