Though the staff lists of all PIs provide for a position of psychologist, except for PIs No.4 and 8, Prison, Correctional Institution, Baku InIs and SMI, in the other establishments these positions are vacant. In the establishments where the post of psychologist is vacant, the staff members of the Psychologists Group of the Correctional Work Organization Office of the PS provide psychological support for convicts. The work of ensuring that convicts serve their sentences close to their places of residence and bringing the conditions of their detention in conformity with modern, international standards has been at the centre of attention. The first shift of the new InIs in Zabrat Settlement, Baku has been put into operation and the persons held under hard conditions in InIs No.1, where overcrowding was the case, have been transferred to that facility. At present the construction of facilities for that isolator under the second phase is continued. The geological works in the areas intended for a PI for female convicts and correctional institution for minors to be built in Zabrat Settlement have been completed, the design estimates of the security fence has been prepared and constructions works have commenced. The construction of the several facilities of the new prison in Umbaku Settlement, Baku has started and the construction of the important facilities is being continued. Also, the second phase of the construction of the PIs of a mixed regime, started to be built in Shaki and Lankaran since 2009, is being continued. The design estimates of the PI of a mixed regime under construction in Gandja have been prepared and evaluated by experts. Presently, the construction of the several facilities of the establishment is ongoing. Technical specifications for the PI of a mixed regime planned to be built in Kurdamir District have been received and submitted to the respective bodies for the preparation of design estimates. In order to improve the conditions of detention of convicts, current repair works have been carried out in the communal facilities of most PIs. In PIs No.1, 8, and 12 the canteens for convicts, in PI No.11 the dormitory for convicts, and in PIs No.12 and 13 the punishment isolators and quarantine rooms have been renovated, and in PIs No.2, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 17 the 46