exercise yard, the installation of a water tap on floors where semi-open regimes and regimes of trust operate and application to the DISP (Interregional Department of Prison Services) for the financing of work for waterproofing shower-rooms. These actions as a whole are placed under the aegis of the technical manager of the institution. Other actions are also planned: bringing the distribution of medicines into line with regulations by means of a memorandum from the head of the prison staff and instructions from the director of the hospital to the personnel of the UCSA, scheduled for the 22 nd November 2012; memoranda from the assistant director with regard to use of the CEL and the GIDE within the framework of searches performed on persons and cells; a memorandum from the director of the institution recalling the code of ethics applicable to staff following complaints from prisoners concerning racist comments directed at them. These actions demonstrate the commitment of the director of the institution and of its teams as a whole to take immediate action in response to the findings contained in the report of the Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté and, above all, to rapidly and tangibly improve living conditions for prisoners. 1. Positive Changes observed following Cases Taken Up and Recommendations In the year 2012 the Inspectorate was able to ascertain a series of positive changes following cases taken up with departments of the central administration and recommendations made at the time of inspections of institutions. This report provides the opportunity to set out a list thereof. 1.1 Transgressive acts committed by minors Request for definition and modes of enforcement of “measures for the maintenance of proper order” intended to provide rapid responses that are proportioned to transgressive acts of minor seriousness committed by minors in custody. The inspection of the remand prison of Hauts-de-Seine, in Nanterre, between 27th and 30th April 2010, gave rise to a certain number of comments and recommendations. The Contrôleur général is very pleased that in 2012 these led to a note from the Minister of Justice of 19th March concerning measures for the maintenance of proper order applied to minors in custody. In the inspection briefing sent to the Minister of Justice with the inspection report for the institution on 7th July 2011, the Contrôleur général made the following comments: “Families are involved in the detention of their minor children in an entirely original manner, in the form of a monthly meeting. This constitutes a highly positive way of resolving the previously mentioned difficulty of face to face relations between persons in custody and staff. Although it does not necessarily appear to have immediately tangible results, this initiative should be extended, on the one hand, to other children’s wings and, on the other hand, to other groups of prisoners (young adults) that currently present problems. Similarly, the “mediation – redress” procedure implemented in the same wing for minor breaches of discipline constitutes a successful initiative. It makes it possible to bring the time of sanction of such breaches closer to the moment at which they are committed, while adapting the form of sanctions to the person. In this case, once again, extension of these procedures should be considered, naturally without diverging from the constraints inherent to disciplinary proceedings. 80