located within the Ohrid Prison, in a specially improvised separate part. The inadequacy and unsustainability of such a “temporary” solution was also pointed out by the director of the Prison, who pointed out that the same problem was addressed to the Directorate for Execution of Sanctions, where he received a notification that a new facility of the educational-correctional home was under construction. During the visit to the Prison, a total of 10 people were there who were sentenced to juvenile prison by an effective verdict, as well as 12 people in the educational-correctional facility, 2 of whom were reported to have escaped. 3.5.2. Material conditions The Ohrid Prison and the Tetovo Educational-Correctional Facility are housed in the same building in the centre of Ohrid, surrounded by residential buildings that directly “hang” above the building of the Prison, that is, over its central outdoor space intended for sports, recreation and leisure activities for children, which is why they are directly exposed to views, comments and remarks from people living in the surrounding area, disrupting their anonymity and privacy. The children, that is, the persons sentenced to a final sentence of juvenile imprisonment, were placed in 3 rooms, three of them in two rooms and four in one room. The part, which houses the persons serving a security measure, that is the Educational-Correctional Home, is separated from the prison part and the persons sentenced to juvenile imprisonment with only one door. In this part, the children are also accommodated in 3 rooms, of which: in a room with an area of 16m² there are 2 children, in the second room with an area of 21m² there are 5 children, and 5 children are accommodated in the third room with an area of 33m². The room temperature during the visit was 24⁰C, but some children said they were not warm enough during the winter when outdoor temperatures were low. The humidity level was within acceptable limits, that is, 50-54% R.H. Hygiene in all rooms is taken care of by the people themselves, that is, children, and during the visit the rooms were generally clean. The rooms are equipped with beds, storage cabinets for personal belongings, TVs and large windows from which enough daylight enters. The beds were clean and tidy. In each part, there were two toilets, and in all the toilets, part of the sanitary units was dysfunctional. The walking area for these two parts is actually a common yard, divided by a tin fence, and is used for sports activities and walking in fresh air, but only in favourable weather conditions, because it is outdoors and has no covered part. The detention unit of the Ohrid Prison consists of 6 rooms with two beds each, which are also used as solitary confinement for persons sentenced to juvenile imprisonment. In www. ombudsman.mk 141

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