practice, so that detained persons arriving in prison are provided with missing personal hygiene articles upon their admission to the prison. The follow-up visit to the Harku imprisonment department of Harku and Murru Prison revealed that the prison had partly complied with the Chancellor’s recommendations made after the inspection of 2013.18 The prison had installed hair-dryers in the living quarters of the accommodation building of prisoners. However, according to the prison service there were no possibilities nor the need to build new rooms for taking care of personal hygiene in the accommodation building or its immediate vicinity. The Chancellor promised to keep an eye on the use of rooms intended for personal hygiene procedures in the Harku imprisonment department of Harku and Murru Prison also in the future and furthermore recommended to the prison to regularly analyse the use of these rooms to prevent occurrence of any new problems and, if necessary, consider building new rooms for taking care of personal hygiene. Harku and Murru Prison informed the Chancellor that it would take account of the Chancellor’s repeated recommendation. The living conditions in Viru Prison are significantly better than in Tallinn Prison or in the Harku imprisonment department of Harku and Murru Prison. Nevertheless, in Viru Prison the problem was the lack of possibilities for drying laundry in the cells in the departments E2, E3, E4 (remand prisoners) and P1 and P2. Detained persons staying in the cells almost round the clock explained that at the risk of receiving a disciplinary sanction they were forced to improvise how to dry the laundry (e.g. by making ribbons, hanging the clothes on the edges of metal beds) thus often hampering visual supervision. According to the Chancellor’s information, the departments of Viru Prison in which detained persons do not have the right to freely move around within their department have lacked the possibilities for drying laundry already since the opening of the prison in 2008. The Chancellor recommended to the prison to create immediately possibilities for all detained persons for drying their personal laundry (e.g. by attaching drying racks, which can be folded to save room, to the walls of the cells). In addition, the detained persons in the departments P1 and P2 (mostly locked cells and punishment cells) of Viru Prison complained that they could have a shower twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays. They were not satisfied with the situation because even though access to the shower was ensured twice a week the number to days between the designated times was not proportionate. The Chancellor noted that access to the showers in the departments P1 and P2 complied with the statutory minimum but nevertheless proposed to Viru Prison to analyse the schedules for using showers in the departments P1 and P2 and, if necessary, make the intervals between access to the shower more equal. In connection with the detention conditions in the future new building of Tallinn Prison, the Chancellor recommended to the Ministry of Justice to create conditions which allow female detainees, detained minors as well as mothers and children in prison free access to the sanitary and washing rooms, while taking into account the need for privacy of these persons. The Chancellor recommended to create the conditions adjusted to the needs of detained persons with disabilities, while taking into account their human dignity and the need for privacy (including sanitary and washing rooms adjusted to the needs of detained persons with disabilities). 18 See the summary of the Chancellor’s 2013 inspection visit to the Harku territory of Harku and Murru Prison. 21