is low. Therefore, the rehabilitation process in these establishments is unsatisfactory. In 2016, various activities were carried out in low risk prison facility no. 16; tournaments in table tennis, football and volleyball, chess, and basketball were some of the activities that were carried out. The convicts had the possibility to meet celebrities; watch numerous movies, learn wood carving, playing guitar, doing clay work, cooking, painting, computers, running a small business, hotel management, IT, and learn Georgian, English and German. Apart from the above-mentioned, the convicts were involved in various psycho-social rehabilitation programmes such as preparation for release, development of cognitive and social skills, human development in social environment, anger management and stress management, everyday life risks and human resources, a step towards changes (understanding crime), etc. Unfortunately, foreign prisoners of penitentiary establishments, due to linguistic barriers, face difficulty in communication with personnel, including social workers and, therefore, they are virtually unable to be involved in rehabilitation activities. While foreign prisoners are offered to take the courses in learning Georgian language, such courses are not regularly conducted. For instance, the monitoring visits made to establishment no. 2 revealed that foreign prisoners had not been informed at all about their right to participate in rehabilitation programmes. ESTABLISHMENT In his Parliamentary Report of 2015, the Public Defender recommended to the Minister of Corrections to take all the measures to ensure that diverse rehabilitation activities are carried out in all penitentiary establishments. He also recommended promoting, to a maximum degree, the social units of penitentiary establishments in planning and conducting various activities with adequate participation of prisoners; to ensure that when planning such activities, the interests of prisoners are taken into account and the forms of incentives should be used more often to ensure more involvement. Unfortunately, this recommendation has not been fulfilled. As the result of the monitoring visits, it was found out that the number of personnel in social units is still insufficient. 175176 Average Number Number of of Prisoners per Social Workers Year Number of Psychologists Head of Unit Composition of the Social Service No. 2 1 218 6 2 1 9175 No. 3 101 3 1 1 5 No. 5 266 7 2 1 11176 No. 6 209 10 3 1 14 No. 7 29 1 1 1 3 175 The table depicts the data as of December 2016; the composition of social units would change in the course of the year. 176 One librarian is including in the staff of a social service. NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM (NPM), 2016 89