with the outside world,139 2 prisoners had been in such conditions twice. In one case, the convict-K.D.’s contact with the outside world was restricted in total for 91 days. It should also be noted that following a visit to the establishment N7 by the members of the Special Preventive Group on 19 June 2015, the Public Defender addressed the Minister of Corrections, to take all necessary measures to ensure that the complete ban of family contact was not applied in N7 facility at the time of the disciplinary sanctions. The recommendation still has not been implemented since in the second half of 2015 the prisoners under disciplinary penalties had fully restricted the contact with their families. According to paragraph 6 of Article 172 of the Imprisonment Code, long visits are not granted to convicts in the special risk prisons, as well as to the convicts, placed under quarantine, or who had imposed a disciplinary sanction and / or administrative detention. In practice, the above-mentioned norm is misinterpreted, since this paragraph deals with the case when the offender is sentenced to disciplinary punishment (disciplinary punishment has not expired) and the restriction of long visits cannot be extended to the case when the disciplinary action expires, even if convicted may be presumed to be under disciplinary action. It is very important for prisoners to maintain sufficient contact with the outside world. First of all, they should be given the opportunity to maintain their relationships with family members and close friends. The guiding principle should be to promote contact with the outside world; any restriction of such contact must be based solely on the protection of important security interests or justified by lack of resources.140 CPT mentioned in the report issued after the visit to Georgia that the restriction of the family contact, as a form of punishment, should be used only where the offense relates to such contacts, and only a very short period of time (more days, rather than weeks or months).141 In accordance with the above, it is necessary to amend Article 82 of the Imprisonment Code to retract all the ways of limiting the contact with outside world from the list of disciplinary sanctions, such as limitations to the telephone communication,142 limitations to correspondence,143 and ban on the short term visits.144 According to Nelson Mandela Rules, prisoners shall have an opportunity to seek judicial review of disciplinary sanctions imposed against them.145 According to European Prison 139 Right to short visits, right to telephone calls, right to correspondence. 140 Second General Report of CPT, para. 51, CPT/Inf (92), published 13 April 1992, available at: <http:// www.cpt.coe.int/en/annual/rep-02.htm> [Last accessed: 03.16.2016]. 141 CPT Visit to Georgia. 119, CPT/Inf (2015) available at: <http://www.cpt.coe.int/documents/ geo/2015-42-inf-eng.pdf> [Last accessed: 02.03.2016]. 142 Imprisonment Code, Article 82, paragraph1.t. 143 see ibid paragraph 1.i. 144 see ibid paragraph 1.m. 145 Rule 41.4. 84 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM (NPM), 2015