fundamental and human rights �.� national preventive mechanism against torture Central Administration Unit will review the furniture of each unit, taking into account the requirements specified in the Ombudsman’s decision. The only furniture in the isolation cells consisted of a toilet seat and a mattress on the floor (4653/2018). According to the prison, four table cubes had already been purchased and installed. The Imprisonment Act requires cells to be equipped with alarm devices that can be used to contact prison staff immediately. Using the alarm button to contact prison staff required the person placed in the cell to go down on their knees and lie down on their stomach to reach the button. This could put the person’s life in danger in the event of, for example, a seizure. From the perspective of the persons deprived of their liberty, the location of the button could be seen as extremely humiliating (2338/2018). The Criminal Sanctions Region of Eastern and Northern Finland reported that the old buttons in Kuopio Prison had been decommissioned, and new buttons were located at door handle height from the floor. Photographs of the new button locations were enclosed with the report. The NPM recommended the prison to issue drinking water to prisoners in plastic bottles until working water taps could be installed in the cells. The prison took measures to purchase plastic bottles immediately during the visit (2340/2018). The NPM found that the lights of one of the isolation cells did not work at all. After the visit, the facility reported that the fault in the lights had been repaired and they were once again operational. According to prison management, the isolation cell had been last used in June 2018. The bed in the cell was still unmade (in October). After the visit, the prison reported that the used bed linen had been removed and the cell cleaned (4652/2018). The isolation cell was equipped with a toilet but no water fixture. There was a pallet in the cell, but no proper bed. The footage from the surveillance camera could be viewed in the control room. It was impossible to tell from the camera in the cell when it was on. The cell’s toilet seat was visible in the camera view on the screen. Therefore, when the camera was on, a prisoner placed in the cell could not go to the toilet without being surveilled by a camera. During the visit, the prison was made aware that camera surveillance of a prisoner placed in an isolation cell was only permitted under the Imprisonment Act if the prisoner had been placed in the cell for observation or isolation under observation (4652/2018). Placement of remand prisoners The Remand Imprisonment Act requires separate units for remand prisoners and convicted prisoners. Remand prisoners may only be placed in the same unit as convicted prisoners when the specific conditions provided for by law are met. Deputy-Ombudsman Pölönen is trying out the accessibility of the alarm button. 86 It was an established practice in the prison to place convicted prisoners and remand prisoners in the same units. This had already been pointed out to the prison during an inspection made by the Ombudsman in 2007. At the time of the visit, the prison was nearly fully occupied and the numbers of remand prisoners varied a great deal. There were also relatively few units in the prison. These factors presented understandable difficulties in