SECTION 2. unit) they all, although separately, were locked in the toilet for a considerable time, until defecation in the presence of an operations officer. This constituted a violation of p. 38 of the Instructions on supervision of prisoners serving sentences at penitentiary institutions, approved by the State Department for Enforcement of Sentences on October 22, 2004, No. 205. All prisoners who refused were later subject to disciplinary punishment, including incarceration in punishment cell. NPM also revealed ungrounded restrictions of the rights of prisoners that are prescribed in the law, as well as abuse of security measures: • lack of possibility to serve the sentence in the area of relatives’ residence; • at daytime prisoners are allowed to stay only in the instruction room or in the outside common area and are strictly forbidden to appear in dormitories; • watching of TV is limited; • forcing of the elderly and sick prisoners to do physical exercise and assignment of the elderly to upper bunks; • locking of prisoners in toilets during searches for a long time, until defecation in the presence of personnel, and gynecological examination of the searched women; • prohibition to sit on beds at daytime, and so on. Interviews of prisoners at Seleznivka penitentiary (No. 143) revealed that at daytime they are allowed to stay only in the instruction room or in the outside common area and are strictly forbidden to appear in dormitories. Notice boards in the units carry no information on the authorities to which one may lodge a complaint. The 65 prisoners also informed that the elderly and sick women were forced to do physical exercise, which was in violation of Art. 124 of the Criminal Enforcement Code of Ukraine. In Dnipropetrovsk remand prison the daily routine for prisoners unreasonably prohibited sitting on beds. Failure to comply with this requirement was seen as a violation of the custody rules and entailed penalties against offenders. Negative practices of involving prisoners into work related to control over the behavior of other prisoners Prisoners at Kamyanets penitentiary (No. 101) who performed the duties of orderlies and senior orderlies on the day of the visit said that they were ordered by the administration to report any observed breaches of the in-house rules and procedures by other prisoners, to instruct the offenders of the daily routine and, in case of further incompliance, to notify the administration. Watching of TV at Seleznivka penitentiary (No. 143) is unreasonably restricted, only one channel (“1 +1”) is allowed, and the DVD-player that prisoners have bought at own expense is kept by the senior orderly and accessible only on her permission and in her presence. The amount of work pay of the   prisoners held at the punishment unit of Oleksiyivka penitentiary (No. 25) was communicated to them by a senior orderly out of prisoners, who brought the work sheet and showed where to sign it. In the production unit control over fulfillment of the daily amount of work was exercised by prisoners engaged by the administration as “activists”. These individuals were also performing administrative duties not envisaged by the relevant legislation: