ANNUAL REPORT 2019-OMBUDSMANNATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM 3.1.6. Procedure for determining disciplinary liability and imposing a disciplinary sanction Regarding the conduct of the procedure for disciplinary responsibility, from the conversations with the convicts, as well as from the inspection of the material documentation, it was concluded that the persons against whom the disciplinary procedure was conducted in CPI Shtip were informed about the reasons for initiating the procedure, they were questioned and gave their statement regarding the particular occurrence for which the procedure is being conducted (in the individual cases there are written statements, and the minutes also contains the statement of the convicted person during the hearing regarding the subject event), they were allowed to propose their evidence, as well as to examine the evidence against them, and they are also given a copy of the disciplinary sanction decision with the instruction that the person has the right to appeal to the director of the Directorate for Execution of Sanctions. The NPM team stated that only one person had filed a complaint against the decision on disciplinary action to the Directorate for Execution of Sanctions, but no decision thereon had been received until the day of the visit. 3.1.7. Resocialization The expert team in the Department for Resocialization consists of a total of 4 people, all of whom have completed higher education, including 1 head of department, 2 psychologists and 1 social worker. In the treatment activities, the convicts are divided into groups and each educator is responsible for 80 convicts. An additional problem in the work of educators is the limited physical space where they perform their work activities. There are two educators in a small office, so the limited spatial conditions also influence the provision of services and interventions by the professional team - educators. Namely, some of the professional team members have attended specialized training to work with certain categories of people, but due to the existing organizational set-up of the institution, the limited human and spatial conditions are a problem for these to be practically implemented in the professional work of the experts. The cooperation with the centres for social work, UNDP, the civil and cultural associations in the City of Shtip was pointed out by the employees in the Department for Resocialization. The educators make the contact with the convicts individually, most often at their request or at the request of the convicts by submitting a request that they submit to the admission office in the institution. During the talks conducted by the NPM team, none of the convicts complained about the right to visit or contact their family, but it was also stated that there is no special room for exercising the right to visit the convicts, due to which the visits of the convicted persons accommodated in a semi-open unit are realized in the open space, in summer time, and in winter in the dining room. Visits to convicts from the closed unit are also made in the dining room. 114