66 MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE: assignment to works, acceptance of performed work statements, control over fulfillment of the daily work amount, supervision of abidance by daily routine, etc. At Bucha penitentiary (No. 85) one prisoner was assigned to make daily calculations of the number of inmates to be taken out for work. Administrations of penitentiary institutions violate the prisoners’ rights to mailing, in contravention of the effective law: • instances of delayed dispatch of prisoners’ correspondence and of failure to dispatch such correspondence; • interference with the privacy of prisoners’ correspondence with the Ombudsman, lawyers, prosecutors, etc. Substantial violations of the Laws of Ukraine “On the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights” and “On Preliminary Detention” and of the Criminal Enforcement Code of Ukraine with regard to prisoners’ correspondence were discovered in remand prisons of Donetsk, Volhynia, Zhytomyr, Luhansk, Odessa, Sumy, Kharkiv and Kherson Regions. The texts of supposedly private letters were marked with stamps on their registration by these institutions’ sections of control over enforcement of judicial decisions. In another instance the cover letter of a prisoner’s application to the Ombudsman carried a note made by the administration of Zhytomyr penitentiary (No. 4) on the letter’s content, in violation of the Criminal Enforcement Code. Unjustified restrictions imposed by the administration of Oleksiyivka penitentiary (No. 25) deprived the prisoners of the opportunity to appeal against imposed penalties. Monitoring visits have also revealed that the procedure of prisoners’ correspondence with their defenders and prosecutors, as established by law, was not complied with and that such letters were read by operations officers. Prisoners held at penitentiary institutions have no opportunity to receive information of legal nature: • library funds of most institutions are poor and lack works of fiction as well as proper numbers of the texts of the Constitution of Ukraine, Criminal Code, Criminal Procedure Code, Criminal Enforcement Code of Ukraine and other legal acts determining the status and authority of law enforcement bodies, the rights and obligations of prisoners and the procedure of enforcement of criminal sentences; prisoners do not have ample opportunities to make use of such texts and other relevant academic literature. Prisoners held at Berdychiv penitentiary (No. 70) complained that they could not get any explanations regarding the appeal and cassation procedures. In this conjunction Berdychiv Inter-District Prosecutor’s Office reviewed the situation and ordered the administration of the penitentiary to eliminate such violations. In addition, discrepancies in the legislation lead to violations of prisoners’ rights to legal assistance. In response to such a breach Berdychiv prosecutor noted that the meeting with the defense lawyer was refused in accordance with the applicable law and, in particular, referred to the requirements of p. 11 of Art. 134 of the Criminal Enforcement Code of Ukraine, as per which convicts are not allowed meetings when placed in solitary confinement. However, according to Art. 110 of the