ANNUAL SPECIAL REPORT 2017 19 in 1930. In the “closed part” prisoners’ dormitories walls have ventilation openings with no frames, making it impossible to close during winter. It is noted that the area often has law temperatures and snowfall. Although the Facility is designated as a special regional medical centre, the doctor and nurse are in leave of absence, and a member of the security personnel is charged with nursing duties. A dentist visits the Facility and provides dental care once a week. There is also a weekly counselling KETHEA, attended by ten (10) prisoners. Finally, there is no social worker or psychologist, and social worker duties are performed by an administrative employee. There is no second chance school, there is however a vocational training institute for cheese making. Attending the vocational training institute requires a high school diploma, as well as a prison term of minimum 2.5 years. Those requirements make it practically impossible for inmates to attend the vocational training program, as there are enough prisoners with the necessary requirements. Nonetheless, the Director has proposed that the vocational training institute can be turned into a technical school, for which there are no such requirements. It is considered that this alteration will allow the training of more inmates, thus contributing to production and consequently income increase. The Authority considers prisoners’ creative activities to be invaluable and believes that acquiring a diploma will improve their chances of employment; therefore it applauds practical solutions that will ameliorate prisoners’ access to the craft of cheese making. Nigrita Detention Facility This facility started operating in 2010. The Facility has five (5) wings, each one comprising of two two-storey wards, which are supervised in pairs by camera and one guard. Every ward has a separate yard. Wing A is however closed due to shortage of security personnel. At the time of inspection there were three hundred and eighty four (384) inmates, while the facility has a capacity of four hundred and eighty (480) inmates. There is no doctor, dentist or psychologist on a permanent basis, but doctors from the local health centre visit the facility occasionally. A dentist form the local health centre visits the Facility weekly and provides dental care. Psychiatric cases are transferred to the psychiatric clinic of Serres Hospital, while KETHEA runs a counselling program. Diavata Detention Facility At the time of inspection, there were five hundred and forty (540) prisoners, of which nineteen (19) were women, with the capacity of the Facility being three hundred and fifty eight (358) inmates. The Facility only has one permanent doctor (a psychiatrist), who is however on a long-term leave of absence, while there are weekly visits of a general physician, a pathologist and a psychiatrist (all of them on a short term tenure). There