39 Of the total number of the recommendations regarding the enforcement of criminal sanctions, 47 were related to the treatment activities and the conduct toward persons deprived of their liberty. Of the total number of recommendations relating to the treatment activities, it was acted upon 18 recommendations, the same number of recommendations was not acted upon, and partially acted upon 11. Recommendations not acted upon were mainly related to the lack of financial resources and facilities for carrying out certain activities. Majority of irregularities noted by the NPM and identified in its reports and through the recommendations made, were related to deficiencies in the implementation of intensive and active educational-corrective work, more detailed and timely information provided to convicted persons on the rights, obligations, rules, and other issues regulating the execution of the prison sanctions, as well as information on the methods and conditions for the exercise and protection of their rights. Also, a certain number of the recommendations referred to the active and systematic cooperation with competent organs for social protection, which is usually inconsistant or missing, but also to the need for the development and implementation of the release preparation and aftercare programs for the convicted persons. It is necessary to furtherly intensify active, individual and collective treatment work of the correctional counselors with convicted persons. It is necessary to improve the system of subsequent reassignment of convicts, in terms of creating opportunities so that convicted persons, on account of good behavior, pass into more favorable treatment group that will help reduce the large number of convicts who are released from the institution for the execution of criminal sanctions directly from a closed ward. Programs that are designed to provide social support and help convicts after release from the institution for the execution of criminal sanctions are still a lump, thus upon release convicted person is left on his/her own, which increases the risk that, as a person not properly adjusted to life outside of prison conditions, he/she will repeat a criminal offense in a short time. During the visits, NPM also noted that insufficient attention is paid to the education of the convicts, that there are not enough opportunities to work, and that the monetary compensation for work engagement is not paid regularly. Despite significant progress in increasing the work engagement of the convicts115, there is still a large number of persons serving prison sentences are not engaged in prison work. NPM observed and draw that issue to the attention of the competent authorities through the report on the visit to the Juvenile Penal Correctional Institution in Valjevo116, that, in the only juvenile penal correctional institution in Valjevo, where juveniles among others convicted persons are serving prison sentences, treatment activities intended for this group do not differ from the treatment activities designed for other prisoners. In addition, according to a number of convicted persons, who are, for security reasons, isolated in the ward under intensified surveillance (OPN), the treatment activities are either not implemented at all, or implemented to a lesser extent than foreseen in their treatment programs, although this group of convicted persons requires more therapeutic effort. In addition, juvenile penal correctional institution, convicted persons who are placed in a semi-open ward are at a considerable disadvantage compared to those who are placed in the closed ward, which is primarily reflected in the availability of various sport, cultural and other free-time activities. Penal Correctional Institution for women in Požarevac classified as a semi-open institution according to the existing regulations, is in fact, an institution of closed type, because all female convicts, regardless of treatment group, practically serve their sentence in the institution, which is surrounded by high walls. In its report NPM pointed out that the conditions in which female prisoners serve their sentences must comply with the relevant regulations and adjust to specific circumstances, also with regard to individual treatment programs for women who are serving sentences in this penal correctional institution. It was also observed that due to the remoteness of the penal correctional institution from the place of 115 e.g. around 700 convicted persons have work engagement in Penal Correctional Institution Sremska Mitrovica, NPM report on the control visit of the Penal Correctional Institution in Sremska Mitrovica, No. 71-48/13. 116 NPM report on the visit of the Juvenile Penal Correctional Facility in Valjevo, No. 71-40/13.