• To ensure drafting an amendment to the Imprisonment Code with the effect of increasing the number of short visits allowed for prisoners serving sentence in closed type and high risk prison facilities; to introduce the draft amendment to the Government of Georgia for its initiation before the Parliament of Georgia; • To ensure drafting of an amendment to the Imprisonment Code with the effect of regulating the right to long visits for prisoners serving sentence in high risk prison facilities; to introduce the draft amendment to the Government of Georgia for its initiation before the Parliament of Georgia; • To ensure drafting of amendment to the Imprisonment Code with the effect of increasing the number of short and long visits; to introduce the draft amendment to the Government of Georgia for its initiation before the Parliament of Georgia; • To ensure drafting of amendment to the Imprisonment Code with the effect of increasing the number of telephone calls allowed for prisoners serving sentence in closed type and high risk prison facilities; to introduce the draft amendment to the Government of Georgia for its initiation before the Parliament of Georgia; • To draft an amendment to the Imprisonment Code for ensuring that prisoners placed in solitary confinement cells can use their right to call the Office of the Public Defender or other organs of inspection; to introduce the draft amendment to the Government of Georgia for its initiation before the Parliament of Georgia; • To take all necessary measures to ensure that prisoners placed in penitentiary establishments can call without impediment the hotline of the Office of the Public Defender or other organs of inspection at any time of the day, if needs be; • To ensure that prisoners’ statutory right to make phone calls is fully respected in all penitentiary establishments; • To ensure that telephones in closed type establishments are installed at such places where personnel cannot overhear prisoners’ telephone conversations; • To ensure there are more telephones provided in the semi-open type establishments to enable all prisoners to exercise their statutory rights; • To ensure that there is requisite infrastructure for video visits in all penitentiary establishments; • To take all necessary measures to ensure the availability of the Georgian channels that are in demand and top-rated in penitentiary establishments; and • To take all necessary measures for taking into account the interests of various linguistic groups when selecting TV channels. 118 HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN CLOSED INSTITUTIONS

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