SECTION 2. 61 The number of prisoners at penitentiary institutions With the effect of the new Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine in 2013 the number of prisoners held at 26 existing remand prisons and 6 penal institutions decreased by 9,352 persons (31 %) and at present totals 21,502 persons, of whom • 1,189 persons are under pre-trial investigation (their number was 2,483 persons a year ago and 4,156 - two years ago); • 8,029 persons await court sentences (last year this number was 14,212, two years ago – 16,871). The number of prisoners at remand prisons, as of January 1 (2009 – 2014) In 2013 employees of the NPM Department together with the representatives of the public carried out monitoring visits to 31 institutions (15 remand prisons and 16 penitentiaries), of which two were repeat visits. The visits carried out over the last year covered 16 Regions (Vinnitsa, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Transcarpathian, Zaporizhzhya, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Rivne, Kharkiv, Khmelnytsky, Cherkassy and Chernihiv Regions).