RECOMMENDATION TO THE MINISTER OF CORRECTIONS OF GEORGIA  Ensure all juvenile prisoners with appropriate clothing  Provide all juvenile prisoners with hygienic items  Explain the rights and responsibilities to juveniles in a language which is understandable for them  Take necessary measures to engage as many juvenile prisoners as possible in recreational and sports activities  Ensure sufficient number of psychologists in the juvenile institutions 2.6.2.  FEMALE OFFENDERS The Special Preventive Group under the National Preventive Mechanism and the Department of Gender Equality of the Public Defender’s Office carried out a monitoring in special institutions for females. The findings of the monitoring are dealt with in the sub-chapter below. Female prisoners are placed in the Penitentiary Institution N5 which contained 270 inmates by the end of the reporting period. The Public Defender welcomes a promising tendency of paroling of female prisoners, which is in line with Rule 63 of the UN Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-Custodial Sanctions for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules). 43 women serving in the Institution N5 were paroled during 2014. It is also worth noting that female inmates largely benefited from various education programmes and cultural and recreational activities implemented in the institution. Within the frames of the National Preventive Mechanism at the Public Defender’s Office and with the support from UN Women the Institution N5 for female offenders have been monitored based on a specially developed methodology informed by local and international legal framework. In order to adequately reflect on specific needs of women prisoners the monitoring team looked at the compliance with the UN Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-Custodial Sanctions for Women Offenders. Overall situation in the Institution N5 is satisfactory. However, the monitoring team revealed few serious problems including personal searches upon admission during which women are to get completely naked. In addition, what is particularly traumatizing for them is that they are asked to do squats.171 It is worth noting that such searches are conducted when prisoners leave the facility. Because of this practice which many 171 Decree 97 of the Minister of Corrections of May 30, 2011 on Approving the Statute of re-trial Detention, Semi-open and Closed-type Prisons, Medical Establishment and Tuberculosis Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre, Article 32, Part 9 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM OF GEORGIA 135