installed in the middle of these cabins are made of glass. For years, prisoners had to meet their visitors at rendezvous beyond these glass barriers and their removal is certainly a step forward, but a problem of space of rendezvous rooms remains, which, in turn, creates an impediment to a confidential conversation. In particular, persons who come to visit prisoners in fact have to meet alongside those booths, in the corridor, as the size of the cabin remaining on the other side of the dividing glass is only 1 square meters. The visit revealed that the rendezvous process is observed by prison staff standing nearby. Blocks have common-use shower rooms. Water consumed in the A, B, C buildings bathrooms’ runs through the sewer system and accumulates in the toilet facilities. Ventilation functions poorly, the walls and the floor are out of date and in need of repairs. In the 2014 Annual Report to the Parliament, the Public Defender addressed the Minister of Corrections with the recommendation to take all necessary measures to create infrastructure necessary for extended visits at the establishment N5 and to renew the obsolete inventory of the maternal and children’s unit. It is a positive fact that the inventory was renewed and the necessary infrastructure for the extended visits was set up during the year. As for other recommendations - the establishment of proper ventilation, operation of central ventilation system in the investigation rooms, ensuring the confidential environment for rendezvous and the shower plumbing and ventilation systems maintenance issues - the recommendations have not been implemented. 2.4.1.4. Establishment N6 of the Penitentiary Department It should be noted that capital renovations of the facility began in 2014 and are ongoing. In 2015, the first and second regime buildings underwent cosmetic repairs, ventilation systems were installed in 11 solitary cells and 15 safe rooms, dining-kitchen building was substantially repaired and yards were roofed with metal nets. The facility has 2 residential buildings. The first building has 152 cells, and the other one- 90 cells. During our visit to the facility57 one or two prisoners were placed in the cells. There were 3 prisoners in three cells and 4 prisoners in only one cell. The area58 per prisoner fully complied with the statutory requirement of Article 15 (2) of the Imprisonment Code in the cells inspected by the Monitoring Group of the National Preventive Mechanism. 59 57 15 September 2015. 58 E.g.: a cell in which one prisoner was placed, the cell area was of 16.34 m2 to 19.97 m2; 2-man cells had 20 m2 to 39.17 m2 of floor space. As for the single cell where 4 prisoners were placed, the space was 19.07 m2. 59 According to paragraph 2 of Article 15 of the Imprisonment Code: „the living space norm in any NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM (NPM), 2015 57