96 MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE: care professionals to provide appropriate conditions for rehabilitation of this category of prisoners. Only a few institutions have separate cells where persons with limited mobility may be held, with relevantly adapted toilets and showers, special beds and handrails. Despite the fact that the international standards and domestic rules admit the need for rehabilitation activities for those unable to move on their own the Ukrainian system of preliminary detention has, regrettably, carried out no such activities. For absence of rehabilitation individuals cannot restore the affected body functions, prevent relapses or develop self-reliance skills, which generally leads to further deterioration of their health condition. Implementation of the Ombudsman’s recommendations given to the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine in 2013 In the course of 2013 the Ombudsman’s reports on results of monitoring visits, with relevant recommendations on elimination of the identified violations of human rights and freedoms of prisoners held at penitentiary institutions, were sent to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine, for proper response and notification of the Ombudsman about the actions taken to eliminate the shortcomings.            According to information received by the Secretariat of the Ombudsman, a number of activities were carried out in order to eliminate the identified shortcomings and to ensure the legal rights of the detained and sentenced prisoners. SPSU annulled its Instruction of April 28, 2010 (No. 3/2/1-2344) that prohibited acceptance of opened correspondence from persons taken into custody and convicted prisoners addressed to the Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights and other relevant international organizations of which Ukraine is a member or participant, or to the authorized persons of such international organizations, or to the prosecutor or defense attorney. This Instruction contravened the procedure established in p. 4.8.5 of the Rules of detention of persons taken into custody and convicted prisoners, approved by Order of the State Department of Ukraine for Enforcement of Punishments on September 20, 2000, No. 192, and registered with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on October 27, 2000, under No. 751/ 4972, according to which in case of unavailability of the postal stamp and the envelope or the absence of money to buy such items relevant expenses were to be covered by the remand prison. Lutsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Artemivsk, Zaporizhzhya, Simferopol, Starobelsk, Sumy, Mykolayiv, Rivne, Kharkiv, Khmelnytsky, Chernihiv and Chernivtsy remand prisons and Novhorod-Siversky (No. 31) and Zhytomyr (No. 8) penitentiaries have equipped the so called model cells.