Report on the Performance of Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2015 number of chairs, which makes the persons deprived of liberty having to eat on their beds. Some of them do not have cabinets in which they could put their personal belongings. The worst conditions are those of misdemeanour offenders and Although the occupancy rate in detained persons, so for example, in Osijek County Prison county and state prisons has there were 15 persons in a room of 38m2. Accommodation dropped compared to previous of a large number of persons into a shared dormitory is not years and prisons invest recommended and combined with other circumstances significant efforts into pertaining to accommodation, such as only one sanitary improving accommodation facility without a door or the lack of chairs and cabinets, it conditions, the standards can be considered as degrading treatment. pertaining to space available In county prisons in Zagreb, Dubrovnik and Split, sanitary to accommodate persons facilities in dormitories are not fully separated from the rest deprived of their liberty are still of the rooms in which persons deprived of their liberty eat not observed. and spend up to 22 hours a day, which is something that certainly has to be changed as soon as possible. With the aim of introducing a more humane method of execution of prison sentence, the COPSD issued orders to most penal institutions in July and October 2015 to provide complete sets of cutlery to persons deprived of their liberty. For security In order to introduce a reasons, their implementation was postponed in Lepoglava and more humane method of Glina State Prisons and in Zagreb County Prison, as well as in the execution of prison Prison hospital. As examples of good practice there are sentence, the COPSD Dubrovnik and Gospić County Prisons, which provide complete issued an order to most sets of cutlery, which are collected and counted after the meals. penal institutions to In Split and Varaždin County Prisons there is no special room for provide complete sets of unsupervised conjugal visits. Considering the fact that this is a cutlery to persons benefit prescribed by the EPSA, prisoners who are imprisoned in deprived of their liberty. county or state prisons that do have such a room are in a better position than the others. In Split and Osijek County Prisons and in Lepoglava State Prison the problem of high temperatures in dormitories during summer months has only been partially remedied by fans and occasional opening of doors. In most penal institutions, prisoners complained of not getting sufficient cleaning agents, of the fact that their blankets are washed extremely rarely and that their mattresses are deteriorated. In Gospić and Varaždin County Prisons there is no separation between smokers and non-smokers, and in Lepoglava State Prison and in Zagreb, Split and Varaždin County Prisons there is no overhang over the walking area and/or no drinking water available, which makes it hard to go for a walk on a rainy or very hot day. Special measures for maintenance of order and security According to records of the COPSD, in 2015 there were 1,387 special measures for maintenance of order and security implemented, which was 581 less than in 2014. Considering the fact that 12