82 MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE: Electrical wires are exposed and tangled with makeshift string supports; any conditions for food storage are lacking. The window frames are out of order and curtained with quilts; for lack of ventilation the air in the cells is stale. Punishment cells of remand prison are too small even for one person (not more than 2 sq. meters) and when the bunk is unhinged it takes all this area. In Kharkiv remand prison some of such small cells are expected to hold two inmates. Small size of windows and their excessive barring do not provide enough fresh air. For lack of natural lighting electric light is constantly on. Novhorod-Siversky penitentiary (No. 31) Kharkiv remand prison Lviv remand prison Exercise areas’ equipment in remand prisons does not meet the regulatory requirements. An exercise area as a rule looks like a windowless concrete enclosure of 12 or 30 sq. m with overhead barring instead of a ceiling. The rough wall coating was not replaced,