- 44 Prison establishments Preliminary remarks recommendations - the Greek authorities to actively pursue their efforts towards eradicating overcrowding as a chronic feature of the prison system (paragraph 47); - the Ministry of Justice, following a period of in-depth consultations with all interested parties, to produce a strategic plan for the recovery of the prison system that addresses the following areas:    the mission of prisons and the values to which prison staff should work; the size of the prison estate and the range of the prison types that it will include; the range of activities that will be provided and the amount of access that persons detained, including those on remand, will have to them;  the human resource requirement needed to run the prisons professionally, including competence profiles for the key roles;  financial projections over a 5 to 10 year period, showing how the planned provision will be met within the resource levels available;  clearly defined short, medium and long term goals (paragraph 48). requests for information - the impact upon the prison population of the measures referred to in paragraph 47 (paragraph 47). Ill-treatment recommendations - the Greek authorities to ensure that vaginal examinations of female prisoners are only carried out when absolutely necessary and upon the required order of the prosecutor, and that each examination is properly recorded in a special register (paragraph 50); - the practice of obliging prisoners suspected of smuggling drugs to take laxatives to be ended forthwith (paragraph 51); - the Greek authorities to put in place procedures to guarantee the systematic recording of injuries and, when appropriate, the provision of information to the relevant authorities, in line with previous CPT recommendations (paragraph 52); - a register for cases of injuries identified by the medical examination on admission to be introduced at each prison (paragraph 52); - the Greek authorities to develop a national strategy concerning inter-prisoner violence and intimidation, taking into account the remarks in paragraph 54 (paragraph 54).