1.4.10. Inspections The Valjevo prison has been visited regularly by NGOs and the Ministry of Justice, and the prison administration has received recommendations submitted by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia. However, the prison administration repeated that they do not have the necessary financial resources to meet the requirements suggested by the Helsinki Committee. 1.4.11. Staff The prison has over 90 guards, including those guards who work in the unit for prisoners on remand. There are also six educators, one psychologist, one sociologist, one pedagogue, one psychotherapist and five teachers employed in this prison. There is almost no training for the prison staff. The prison governor had recently been to Sweden, where he had had the opportunity to visit some Swedish prisons. 1.5. Visit to the Penitentiary Reformatory in Požarevac The IHF delegation visited the penitentiary reformatory institution Zabela in Požarevac on 30 May 2005. The visit to the institution started at 9:30 a.m. The delegation first spoke to the prison governor, who presented some general information about the institution. 1.5.1. Basic data The Zabela Prison was founded in 1910 and is placed in the outskirts of the city of Požarevac. Over the last years, repairs have regularly been carried out. At the day of the visit, overhaul of the buildings and premises was performed. Two of the buildings had been totally ruined and burned down during the riots in 2000. One of these had already been renewed and the other one was to undergo a solid rebuilding operation. The prison director informed about plans to build new buildings because of overcrowding. Because of this overcrowding, rooms previously used by the school had been reconstructed, and 80 prisoners placed in them. A central heating system had been installed in 2004. The prison comprises a large area of 136 000 m². Zabela has five prison units (an admission unit, an open unit, a semi-open unit, a closed unit, a strictly closed unit), and several adjacent buildings that are part of the prison. The administration building and the visiting rooms are located next to the main gate. The following buildings are also in the complex: A library building (containing a library, a crafts area and an unused open theatre), a kitchen and bakery building, a hospital building, industrial buildings and a building used for spousal visits. Furthermore, there is a basketball court and a big football field (40 m x 15 m), along with a water fountain and a swimming pool. Finally, there is a gas station, a garage previously used as a stable, and an orthodox chapel. All these buildings are located in an area comprising 76 000 square meters. The remaining 58 000 m² contains an unguarded area, with the semi-open unit No. 8, a pig-breeding farm, stores, and workshops for wood and metal. Prisoners under the open regime are accommodated in a separate building, a few kilometres away from the closed and strictly closed unit. There are also few plants and trees in the yard of the institution. The group was not allowed to take any pictures. The restriction on taking pictures included even the prison’s scale model. 1.5.2. Categorization and segregation of inmates, and its purpose The capacity of the prison is 2,100 prisoners. On the day of the visit, 1,366 convicted prisoners and 30 detainees (indicted and defendants) were kept in the prison. All were male, aged above 18. The number of inmates convicted for petty crimes was six. Administratively, prisoners are divided into six categories - A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2. Each category has different privileges regarding visits (LECS, Article 68, Article 104), leaves (LECS, Article 104), and parcels (LECS, Article 74, Article 104). The prison governor authorizes transfers
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