used to law-abiding behaviour prior to their release. Scarce opportunity for internet use prevents prisoners from looking for information on jobs, optimal routes for proceeding from one place to another, and public transport. Without learning to use a computer, prisoners will not learn how to write a CV, and it is also difficult to imagine modern education without a computer and the internet. Almost complete isolation of prisoners from the rest of the world leads to a situation where they are unable to start a law-abiding life upon release from prison, for example finding a job that matches their skills. The Minister of Justice agreed to revise the rules and practice concerning prisoner internet access. In separate proceedings, the Chancellor emphasised that short-term leave from an open prison is important for maintaining family relationships and positive social contacts and helps prisoners to start leading a law-abiding life upon release. The Chancellor asked the prison always to take this into account when deciding on grant of short-term prison leave. During the inspection of Tallinn and Tartu prisons, considerable attention was paid to communication by convicted and remand prisoners with their next of kin. A commendable initiative are the “family days” organised by Tartu Prison, where prisoners can meet their next of kin without having a glass or wire barrier separating them. Short-term contact visits (i.e. without a barrier) help to maintain relationships with family members, especially with children. The Chancellor’s recommendation to both prisons was that, as a rule, individual short-term visits with family members should also take place without a separating barrier. In both prisons, access by convicted and remand prisoners with mobility disability (e.g. those using a wheelchair) to different parts of the prison (including the medical department) was complicated without assistance. In Tartu Prison, the Chancellor paid particular attention to the section where mothers with children up to three years old were serving their sentence. Women are able to work in the section but have no opportunity to study or participate in social programmes. A suspicion remained that handcuffs were used to escort pregnant women from the prison to hospital for childbirth and subsequently during return to prison. Prison officers are present at childbirth; male officers also stay with the woman in a postnatal ward, sometimes around the clock. The Chancellor asked the prison to organise supervision of women at birth by using different measures. 11