• To ensure drafting an amendment to the Imprisonment Code on prohibiting the use of television and radio as a disciplinary penalty and to introduce the draft amendment to the Government for its initiation before the Parliament. PROPOSALS TO THE PARLIAMENT OF GEORGIA: • To amend the Imprisonment Code to the effect of deleting the restriction of the right to telephone conversations, the right to receive and send private correspondence, as well as forfeiture of short visit privileges as a disciplinary penalty; • To amend the Imprisonment Code to ensure that a prisoner placed in a solitary confinement cell is not restricted in short and long visits, telephone conversations and purchasing food; • To amend the Imprisonment Code and guarantee the possession of a television/radio is a prisoner’s right and to ensure that the use of this right does not depend on the consent of the establishment’s director; • To amend the Imprisonment Code and prohibit the ban on the use of television and radio as a disciplinary penalty; • To amend the Imprisonment Code to the effect of ensuring those prisoners imposed with a disciplinary penalty are not restricted in their right to video visits; and • To amend the Imprisonment Code to the effect of abolishing administrative (disciplinary) detention as a form of punishment; in case this form of punishment is maintained, to ensure that its maximum duration is limited to 15 days. 3.7. CONTACTS WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture places a particular emphasis in its recommendations on ensuring contacts with the outside world for each person deprived of his/her liberty. Restriction of this right in any form should be based on weighty security considerations and problems related to existing material resources.221 Under Paragraph 24.1 of the European Prison Rules, prisoners shall be allowed to communicate as often as possible by letter, telephone or other forms of communication with their families, other persons and representatives of outside organisations and to receive visits from these persons. Under Paragraph 24.5 of the Rules, prison authorities shall assist prisoners in maintaining adequate contact with the outside world and provide them with the appropriate welfare support to do so. Under Article 46.3 of the Imprisonment Code, a convicted person shall, as a rule, serve his/her sentence in a prison facility of the 221 Operative parts of the General Reports of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), Strasbourg, 18 August 2000, p. 37. NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM (NPM), 2016 107