- 40 108. Activities in any meaningful sense of the term were scarce. There were only 236 work places (i.e. 1 work place for 6 prisoners), practically all in the area of general services (kitchen, laundry, cleaning, maintenance, stores, etc.); no workshops were in operation. However, a printing and bookbinding vocational training centre, with places for 30 prisoners, was due to open in 1993. The shortage of work places was particularly resented by many sentenced prisoners, as it prevented them from taking advantage of the system of earning remission through work. No educational classes were available and the prison library was both small and illequipped. Further, there was no prison gymnasium and, as far as the delegation could ascertain, no organised sporting activities. However, the exercise yards were sufficiently large for certain games (eg. volleyball), and arrangements were in hand to provide a separate weight-training area in each of the yards (at the time of the visit, a few prisoners did weight training in the wing basements). To sum up, the vast majority of prisoners at the Korydallos Prison for men (including a majority of the sentenced prisoners) were offered no work or educational activities, and possibilities for sport were very limited. Most prisoners spent their day walking around their detention wing or courtyard, talking with fellow prisoners, or watching television in their cell. Such a monotonous and purposeless existence is quite inconsistent with the objective of social rehabilitation set out in the Greek Code of basic rules for the treatment of prisoners (cf. paragraph 94). 109. As regards material conditions of detention at the Korydallos Prison for men, the CPT recommends: - that immediate steps be taken to ensure that no more than three prisoners are held per cell; - that serious efforts be made to reduce as soon as possible the occupancy rate to two prisoners per cell1; - that every prisoner be provided with his own bed and mattress; - that shower cubicles, toilets and washing facilities be restored to a good state of repair and maintained in a hygienic condition. As regards out-of-cell activities, the CPT recommends: - that current efforts to augment the number of work and vocational training places be intensified; - that a thorough examination of the means of improving the prison's activity programmes in general (including education, sport and recreational activities) be undertaken without delay and that fuller programmes be progressively introduced as overcrowding is brought down. 1 Naturally, the long-term objective should be to have one prisoner per cell, save for specific situations when it is not appropriate for a prisoner to be left alone.