Detention monitoring Below, the NCPT summarises its main observations and findings from inspections conducted in the past year. The facilities are listed by category.4 a. Pre-trial detention facilities Zurich Prison5 In August 2017, the Commission visited Zurich Prison, where men and women are accommodated in separate units for the enforcement of pre-trial, security and pre-deportation detention orders. The Commission assessed mainly the conditions of detention for women, and overall found that insufficient consideration was given to their specific needs. The Commission criticised in particular, the extended confinement periods, the limited showering opportunities, the availability of only a rather limited range of leisure activities, such as sewing and cooking. Furthermore, and in contrast to male detainees, women were not offered opportunities for further education. The Commission stressed that female detainees should have access to meaningful leisure activities and suggested further that mainly female wardens should be deployed and that the staff should be trained in order to have a greater awareness of the needs of women in detention. b. Correctional detention facilities  igh Security Unit of the Thorberg Correctional Facility H (Bern)6 On its follow-up visit in March 2017, the Commission reviewed the implementation of its recommendations concerning the prison›s high security units. Overall, the Commission welcomed the various measures that had been implemented at the facility since its last visit in 2012. A new unit for long-term detainees has been constructed and detailed concepts of detention regime policy in the high secu  The reports on the facilities visited can be accessed at: https://www.nkvf.admin.ch/nkvf/de/home/publiservice.html (in German). 4 Report to the Government Council of the Canton of Zurich on the visit of the National Commission for the Prevention of Torture to the Zurich Prison on 25 August 2017, available online at: https://www.nkvf.admin.ch/nkvf/de/home/publiservice/ news/2018/2018-04-23.html (in German) 5 Report to the Government Council of the Canton of Bern on the follow-up visit of the National Commission for the Prevention of Torture to the high security units of the Thorberg Correctional Facility, 15 March 2017, available online at: https://www.nkvf.admin.ch/dam/data/nkvf/Berichte/2017/thorberg/bericht-thorberg.pdf (in German). 6 14 Activity Report NCPT 2017