- 18 b. material conditions 39. At the time of the 2008 visit, refurbishment work was underway in the Petrou Ralli and Aspropyrgos Police Holding Facilities. For this reason, the Aspropyrgus facility operated at less than half its capacity and at Petrou Ralli a considerable number of showers and toilets were not accessible. On the day of the visit, the Aspropyrgus facility held 54 male irregular migrants for a total capacity of 140 men, and in Petrou Ralli there were 185 male and 74 female detainees, for a total capacity of 208 males and 150 females. The CPT’s delegation noted that many of the remarks made in the report on the Committee’s 2007 visit remain valid. In both facilities, detained migrants continued to have difficulties accessing a toilet, in particular at night, and resort to plastic bottles was common. The renovation work under way will not change this state of affairs, as in-cell toilets are not planned in either facility. By consequence, detained migrants remain dependent on staff in order to be able to go to the toilet; in this respect it was not helpful that call bells had still not been installed in either facility. Further, as was the case in 2007, the mattresses and blankets handed out to detained migrants were generally filthy. Also, access to outdoor exercise remained problematic in both facilities: at Petrou Ralli the spacious roof-top yard could still not be accessed daily by the detainees, and in Aspropyrgus no outdoor exercise yard had been constructed, despite the open spaces surrounding the facility. In addition, in Aspropyrgus the window panes in some of the cells were broken, rendering the cells cold, particularly at night. In sum, the living conditions in both facilities remained poor. The CPT recommends that the Greek authorities ensure that the following improvements are made in the Petrou Ralli and Aspropyrgus Police Holding Facilities: - access to toilets to be guaranteed, including at night; - call bells to be installed in all cells; - arrangements to be put in place to provide every newly-arrived detainee with a clean blanket and clean mattress. Further, the Committee recommends the construction of an outdoor exercise yard at the Aspropyrgus Holding Facility and the provision of daily outdoor exercise at the Petrou Ralli Holding Facility. 40. The infrastructure of the Mytilini Special Facility for Irregular Migrants had not changed since the previous CPT visit in 2007. The facility consisted of five large warehouses for male detainees and two warehouses for juveniles and women, respectively; another warehouse was in use as storage. Of the four prefabricated stand-alone units, which in 2007 had been presented to the CPT’s delegation as designated accommodation for women and children, one was being used by staff and the remaining units accommodated detainees with infectious diseases.