The Public Defender issued recommendations regarding the organisation of yards in establishments nos. 3, and 8 in the Report of 2015 too. It has not been fulfilled yet. According to the information submitted by the medical personnel of establishment no. 3, prisoners of the said establishment experience lower back pain (which they call ‘prison bed syndrome’) due to immobility and lying in a small bed140 in the same position. Furthermore, the prisoners suffer from gastric and intestinal ailments also caused by immobility and disorderly dietary and sleeping arrangements; prisoners have frequent headaches, which the medical personnel relate to the lack of fresh air/oxygen. According to the medical personnel, there are frequent occasions of prisoners having rashes, which they were unable to treat medically. The doctors assume that the rashes are caused by the conditions existing in cells and lack of fresh air since inmates in closed type establishments do not spend more than one hour in the open air141 and there are problems related to natural and artificial ventilation in the cells. In his Parliamentary Reports of 2014 and 2015, the Public Defender recommended to the Minister of Corrections to close establishment no. 7 due to the dire living conditions there. While, in 2016, the number of prisoners has considerably decreased in the said establishment, it continues to be operational. Therefore, the recommendation of the Public Defender concerning its closure remains the same. Despite the infrastructural and dire living conditions, according to information received from the establishment’s director, 142 no repairs were conducted in establishment no. 7 in 2016. According to the statements of the representatives of the Ministry of Corrections, it is planned to close establishment no. 7 in the near future. 3.5.8. INFRASTRUCTURE There is no infrastructure for long visits in penitentiary establishments nos. 7, 8, 9, 18, and 19. The Public Defender recommended to the Minister of Corrections regarding this issue more than once. Except for the prisoners of establishment no. 7, the prisoners of other establishments listed above are periodically transferred to other establishments for long visits. It is, however, necessary that the appropriate infrastructure for long visits is provided in the above establishments. In the investigative and meetings rooms of penitentiary establishments,143 apart from representatives of investigative authorities, prisoners meet lawyers, clerics, representatives of the Public Defender and international organisations. The law ensures the confidentiality of conversations with these persons. As there are surveillance cameras installed in these rooms, the majority of prisoners believe that visual and audio recordings of their conversations are made by these cameras installed in investigative rooms, which negatively affects their openness and discourages them to certain degree during the conversations. 140 Size of the bed is 63x189 cm. 141 Under the Imprisonment Code, an remand/convicted person has the right to stay in the open air at least one hour a day (to enjoy the right to walk in the open air). 142 Letter no. MOC 2 1700041592, dated 18 January 2017. 143 In establishment no. 8, one room is designated for the representatives of the Red Cross and it allows meeting with prisoners without eavesdropping. The representatives of the Public Defender use this room as well. NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM (NPM), 2016 75