habits, offer opportunities for work-related activities with practical outcomes and facilitate coping on the labour market. 2.4. Access to the building of the accommodation centre and the provision of services to persons with special needs The inspection revealed that people with special needs could not independently access the building of the accommodation centre. Residents of the centre also had to resolve all their daily problems themselves. The Chancellor recommended to the centre to take into account, when reconstructing the building, that people with special needs should be ensured independent access to the building, and asked to notify the Chancellor in which period the centre planned to organise this. In addition, the Chancellor recommended to the centre to analyse how the provision of services for people in need of assistance takes place. 2.5. Other issues The Chancellor also recommended to the centre to ascertain the possibilities for the children living in the centre to attend kindergarten and how the relevant expenses are covered. The Chancellor also asked to notify the parents about this. 2.6. Good practice As an example of good practice, the Chancellor pointed out a very open and helpful attitude of the staff of the centre to the residents. The Chancellor also recognised the centre for teaching English to the residents in addition to the statutory requirement of teaching Estonian, and acknowledged the contribution of the centre and NGOs to creating different opportunities for the asylum seekers for spending free time. 3. Prisons In 2014, the Chancellor carried out an unannounced inspection visit to Tallinn Prison (case No 7-7/141246), an announced visit to Viru Prison (case No 7-7/141492) and an unannounced follow-up visit to the Harku imprisonment department of Harku and Murru Prison (case No 77/140144). A medical expert was involved in the inspection visit to Viru Prison. The prisons visited in 2014 are all very different penal institutions. While the buildings of Viru Prison are rather new and built in line with the modern requirements for the execution of imprisonment, Tallinn Prison and the Harku imprisonment department of Harku and Murru Prison are rather depreciated and mostly camp-type prisons. As the Chancellor’s activities for the prevention of ill-treatment also include making observations and recommendations with regard to closed institutions still in the stage of planning, in 2014 the Chancellor sent to the Ministry of Justice a recommendation in connection with the detention conditions in the new planned buildings of Tallinn Prison. The Chancellor paid particular attention to the fact that the conditions of detention in the new planned closed institutions should take account of the needs of vulnerable groups (especially women, minors and people with disabilities). 19