• To create clear job descriptions, standard operational procedures and guidelines for managing incidents for maintaining adequate performance and accountability of the employees of penitentiary establishments. 3.5. PRISON CONDITIONS 3.5.1. PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT, SANITATION AND HYGIENE CONDITIONS In comparison to previous years, in a number of penitentiary establishments, physical environment, sanitation and hygiene conditions have been considerably improved. However, the situation in some of the penitentiary establishments still needs serious improvement and compliance with international standards. Notwithstanding the existing difficulties, the state is under an obligation to promptly eradicate shortcomings and create adequate prison conditions. Prison administrations shall make all reasonable accommodation and adjustments to ensure that prisoners with physical, mental or other disabilities have full and effective access to prison life on an equitable basis.104 3.5.2. LIVING SPACE In accordance with the Imprisonment Code, living space standard per a convicted person in all types of prison facilities shall not be less than 4 m2;105 and living space standard per an remand person in a detention facility shall not be less than 3 m2.106 It was revealed during the visits made in 2016 that all prisoners are not provided with 4 m2 of living space in establishments nos. 2, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, and 17. In establishment no. 7, e.g., prisoners enrolled in economic service, live in two cells (two inmates in each cell). The space of one cell is approximately 5 m2 and another is 7.5 m2. Certain prisoners107 live in double cells in establishment no. 8. The size of a cell is approximately 7.38 m2 (isolated WC is 1.36 m2). The cell is 4.74 m in length and 1.55 in width which is in violation of the above provisions.108 In total, there are 14 cells in the establishment. The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture recommended to the Georgian authorities to continue their efforts to ensure that the minimum standard of 4 m² of living space per prisoner in multi-occupancy cells (not counting the area taken up by any toilet 104 The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules), Rule 5.2. 105 Article 15.2. 106 Article 2.3. 107 20 prisoners as of 1 March 2017. 108 Report to the Georgian Government on the visit to Georgia carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 1 to 11 December 2014, CPT/Inf, (2015), para. 48, available in English at : http://www.cpt.coe.int/en/documents/eng-standards.pdf [Last visited on 13.02.2017]. NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM (NPM), 2016 67