HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE AGENCIES UNDER THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS and take a walk for at least one hour each day. In the isolators that have no special walking yard, the detainees may be taken out to take a walk outside the police division’s administrative building or in the adjacent territory. Detainees must also be able to satisfy their natural needs in compliance with sanitary and hygienic norms, 24 hours a day. Toilets must be equipped with sanitation items. Individuals who have been sentenced to more than 30 days of administrative detention, upon their request, must be provided with hairdressing services. The administration of the place of enforcement of administrative detention does not have the right to force administrative detainees to shave their heads unless there is a medical indication or hygienic necessity to do so. Individuals who have been sentenced to administrative detention for more than 30 days as well as juveniles who have been sentenced to more than 15 days may be granted the right to receive two visits a month and have a ten-minute conversation once a month. Administrative detainees also have the right to subscribe for and/or receive any literature, magazines and newspapers at their own expense. They are entitled to send complaints, applications and letters. Pursuant to the above-cited ministerial order, administrative detainees may get registered as prospective students according to the rules established by the Georgian Ministry for Education and Science by applying for participation in the Unified National Examination. Furthermore, administrative detainees must be provided with all the conditions for not falling behind with the general education programme. There are 37 operational temporary detention isolators in Georgia. Two of them are located in Tbilisi, and others are in the regions. In a majority of temporary detention isolators in the Georgian regions, ventilation systems are practically dysfunctional. Small-size windows are insufficient to provide natural ventilation and lighting. The cells are not heated properly. Walking yards are mostly out of order. For illustrative purposes, we provide some summaries of the situation existing in some of the temporary detention isolators. The temporary detention isolator in Dusheti The isolator does not have a walking yard. As the isolator staff explained, the detainees are taken out for walk to breathe in some fresh air outside the building but they have to sign an affidavit, which is a warning about the liability in case of fleeing. The cells are not ventilated. There is no sufficient natural or artificial lighting. The temporary detention isolator in Mtskheta The isolator has a walking yard which is unroofed and cannot therefore be used in rain or snow. There is no sufficient natural or artificial lighting in the cells. The toilets inside the cells are not isolated and it smells bad in the cells. The ventilation system does not ensure ventilation. The temporary detention isolator in Gardabani The isolator is located in the basement of the premises of the Gardabani District Police of the Kvemo Kartli Regional Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The cells in the basement have no natural lighting or ventilation. No heating or artificial ventilation systems are functional. The shower room is unrepaired and unequipped. The cells do not have sufficient artificial lighting inside. The entire basement is humid. Instead of beds, the detainees have to sleep on wooden planks. The detainees in the cells have to wash their hands with water from a pipe that is designed to flush the toilet and is installed at the height of about 30 centimeters from the floor. There are no tables and chairs in the cells. The floor is made of concrete. The natural and artificial lightings are insufficient. There are no water taps inside the cells and the detainees have to use water from the pipe designed for flushing the toilet; the pipe is located at about 25 centimeters above the floor. Detainees are provided with items of personal hygiene and linen by their family members. The temporary detention isolator in Rustavi The cells in the isolator have no tables and chairs. The natural and artificial lightings are insufficient. There is some specific odor in the cells due to insufficient ventilation. The detainees have to sleep on wooden planks. The water taps are regulated from outside the cells, by the isolator staff. The detainees are getting items of personal hygiene and linen from their families. There is no shower room in the isolator. Detainees are not allowed to receive filter cigarettes through parcels even though there is no normative act preventing the detainees from doing so or governing this issue in any other way. We believe this limitation is unnecessary 2013 The temporary detention isolator in Marneuli NPM Report 53