PRISONS There was a thermometer in each of the specially secured rooms, making it possible to note the temperature in the room when it is occupied. Further, the specially secured rooms in the entire facility are used remarkably rarely. In recent years the rooms have always been used less than 10 times. Female prisoners are also given a shirt which the prison designed especially for this purpose. The men should also be given such a shirt to wear when they are placed in the specially secured room containing no dangerous objects. Further, the Joint Commission found during its visit that the temperature in one of the specially secured rooms in the pre-trial detention unit was 32°C. Some people may find this too warm. According to the head of the facility, the temperature is adjustable. It should be ensured that the temperature is kept at a comfortable level. Response: The suggestion made by the Joint Commission following a visit to Bernau Prison on 4 May 2011 was already taken up in 2011. In addition to disposable paper or non-woven fabric underpants, prisoners are to be given a vest and a blanket made of tear-resistant material. Shirts are provided on a case-by-case basis. The report following the visit to Nuremberg Prison provided the opportunity to once more raise the prison’s awareness for this matter. Nuremberg Prison has in the meantime deposited these shirts in all the anterooms to the specially secured rooms containing no dangerous objects. The temperature in the prison cells can be adjusted at any time if prisoners detained in them feel uncomfortable. It should also be mentioned that in recent years prisoners have not complained about the temperature in the prison. The disciplinary detention rooms which the delegation inspected were clean and functionally furnished. However, an SS symbol and a swastika had been drawn on the table in one of the rooms. Particular attention should be paid during a room handover to ensuring that comments or drawings of an unconstitutional nature which may cause offence to or act as provocation for certain groups of prisoners are removed. Response: The disciplinary detention rooms are generally checked before a new prisoner is moved in to see if there are any symbols or marks. The Joint Commission’s finding has provided occasion to once more raise awareness amongst the relevant staff members for this specific matter. For the rest, the swastika on the table which had been noted during the visit was removed that same day and a report sent to the supervisory authority. The shower rooms in the men’s prison which the Joint Commission inspected each have six showers, which are not partitioned off. Even though unlocking times are comparatively generous, some prisoners only shower in their underpants out of a sense of shame or for religious reasons. The Joint Commission therefore recommends partitioning off at least one shower so that prisoners’ genital area is covered when they are in the shower. These arrangements have been made in other prisons and have not led to any increase in the number of attacks on account of it being difficult to get a good overview of the shower room. 3.2 – NUREMBERG PRISON, 19/20 OCTOBER 2013 The Joint Commission visited Nuremberg Prison on 19 and 20 November 2013. At the time of the visit the prison was responsible for enforcing first-time and regular prison sentences of up to two years against men, first-time and regular prison sentences of up to three months against women, custody pending deportation against men and women, pre-trial detention and youth detention. On account of changes being made to the prison’s scheme of execution, since 25 November 2013 custody pending deportation has been enforced in Mühldorf am Inn Prison, which has been designated a predeportation detention facility. The facility in Nuremberg has a capacity of 1,039; 554 can be accommodated in the men’s prison, 417 in pre-trial detention and 68 in the women’s prison. At the time of the visit the prison was holding 874 prisoners, 486 in the men’s prison (including 11 detainees awaiting deportation), 45 in the women’s prison (including five detainees awaiting deportation) and 343 in the pre-trial detention unit. One pre-trial detainee was in solitary confinement on judicial order. The delegation visited the unit for male detainees awaiting deportation, the unit for male sentenced prisoners, the women’s unit, including predeportation detention, the pre-trial detention unit and their respective secure areas. The delegation held private meetings with members of the general prison staff, the social worker responsible for male detainees awaiting deportation, with two male and three female detainees awaiting deportation, two female pre-trial detainees and one prisoner representative. It also held a meeting with the chair of the staff council, with the pastoral workers, a doctor and the pre-trial detainee who had been placed in solitary confinement by judicial order. The visiting delegation inspected the files of the detainees awaiting deportation and those of the last prisoner to be placed in solitary confinement and disciplinary detention, respectively. 3.2.1 – Recommendations and response Prisoners in the men’s prison are given paper underpants to wear when they are placed in the specially secured room containing no dangerous objects. 43