RECOMMENDATIONS TOO THE MINISTER OF CORRECTIONS: • To take all the measures to ensure to the maximum extent, with due attention to security interests, accessibility of rehabilitation activities and contact with the outside world in high risk prison facilities, similar to the practices in the regular penitentiary establishments; • To take all the measures to ensure that security systems in high risk prison facilities are not based only on static security and dynamic security concept is actively implemented; • To take all the measures to ensure that prisoners are more actively involved in rehabilitation activities as a compensation for special security regime; • To take all the measures to ensure that limitations/prohibitions imposed on a convicted person are not preconditioned by the mere fact that this person is placed in a high risk prison facility; instead limitations/prohibitions should be imposed individually, based on an adequately reasoned decision by taking into account the assessment of imminent risk posed by a particular convict; • To amend statutes of the high risk prison facilities to the effect that convicted persons are placed in single cells based on an adequately reasoned decision taking into account the assessment of imminent risk posed by a particular convict, subject to review in reasonable intervals; • To take all the measures to ensure that that placement of convicted persons in single cells are compensated by maintaining contact with the outside world, accessibility of rehabilitation activities, library, and TV and radio; and • To overcome criminal subculture and informal rule in penitentiary establishments o ensure elaboration of the strategy on overcoming criminal subculture which should contain systematic and regular activities based on the study of criminal subculture existing in a penitentiary establishment; o prevent informal rule in penitentiary establishments; o ensure enhancement of prison personnel’s accountability, competences and operational capacities; o ensure optimum correlation of the number of personnel and inmates for practical implementation of dynamic security; o ensure enhancement of personnel’s skills in terms of interactions with inmates, conflict management, mediation, and conduct compatible with the Code of Ethics; and 38 HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN CLOSED INSTITUTIONS

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