- 46 74. Nafplio Prison, located on the outskirts of the town in the Peloponnese peninsula, was accommodating 509 prisoners for an official capacity of 314. For most of the year, the number of prisoners had hovered around 600 and decreased by 70 during the week prior to the delegation’s visit; this reduction was designed inter alia to remove a number of known troublemakers.51 A breakdown of the figures from 16 April 2015 showed that the prison held 162 remand prisoners and 371 sentenced prisoners, of whom 324 had sentences in excess of five years. Sixteen prisoners were being held as “guests” pending their deportation. Foreign national prisoners made up 51% of the inmate population. The prison consisted of two wings (A and B) with cellular accommodation and a third wing (C) with four large dormitories. A and B wings each consisted of four corridors of nine cells each spread over two floors, making a total of 72 cells. The cells measured some 14m² and were equipped with either two sets of bunk beds or a single bed and one set of bunk beds. Access to natural light through the large windows was good and ventilation sufficient although the windows could not be opened when the room contained two sets of bunk beds. The in-cell toilet, shower and basin area was not fully partitioned, and in numerous cells one or two prisoners had to sleep on mattresses on the floor with their heads next to the toilet area. Indeed, when the numbers were higher it was common to have seven prisoners in a cell, with three persons sleeping on mattresses on the floor. As regards C Wing, the conditions in the dormitories were extremely cramped with hardly any personal living space; for example, C1 and C3 dormitories measured 57m² and were accommodating 30 prisoners each (primarily Roma) and the delegation heard that several weeks prior to the visit some 46 prisoners had been crammed into C3 dormitory. The sanitary annexes consisted of three toilets and three showers and were in a state of disrepair. Needless to say, these conditions are totally inappropriate for holding prisoners. A dormitory of 57m² should hold no more than 14 persons. 75. In addition, there was a small accommodation area for vulnerable prisoners on the ground floor of B wing consisting of a narrow corridor of some 10m in length and an adjoining dormitory measuring some 25m��, including a fully partitioned sanitary annexe. At the time of the visit, there were 11 prisoners in the dormitory and six persons occupying the five sets of bunk beds placed the length of the corridor. The conditions in the corridor were totally unacceptable as there was no access to natural light, little ventilation and cobwebs and dirt everywhere. The air was damp and the main sewage pipe from the first floor cells, located in the corridor, was not only causing a constant noise but it also overflowed and flooded the floor from time to time. Moreover, the most vulnerable prisoners had been placed in this area such as an elderly man who had suffered three strokes and required the assistance of other inmates to go about his daily activities. The elderly prisoners stated that they wanted to be close to the sanitary annexe as it contained the only sit-down toilet in the prison, and that they were afraid of being placed in the wings. At the end of the visit, the CPT’s delegation requested that steps be taken to stop using the narrow corridor for accommodating prisoners and that, while the most vulnerable prisoners should be kept in the dormitory, the numbers should be reduced; further, the other vulnerable prisoners should be located in the nearby cells on B2 wing. 51 See paragraph 7. The CPT’s delegation later met 19 prisoners who had been hurriedly transferred to Kalamata Police Station from Nafplio Prison on 15 April 2015 to attend court cases later in April.