- 61 b. regime 111. The legal basis governing the general daily routine in Greek prisons was described in the report on the CPT’s 2005 visit66 and has remained largely unchanged. In spite of legal provisions regulating the entitlement of all prisoners to educational activities and vocational training, work, organised physical exercise, cultural and recreational activities, the activities offered remain insufficient for the number of prisoners. 112. The hours during which mainstream accommodation cells are unlocked and prisoners can move around freely in the wings are essentially the same across all Greek prisons, with minor local variations. These times are usually between 8 a.m. and noon and again between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. At Ioannina Prison, however, the inmates sleeping in the corridors need to have access to the sanitary annexes located within the dormitories. The prison officers are therefore no longer in a position to implement the lock-up policy and all the cells remain open 24 hours per day. Except for at Korydallos Men’s prison, where inmates only had access to outdoor exercise for two hours per day, prisoners in the establishments visited had access to outdoor exercise for between two and four hours in the morning and in the afternoon. 113. The delegation noted that in all prisons visited, except for Avlona, there were far fewer jobs available than prisoners requesting work. Further, most of the prisoners who had jobs worked as cleaners, while some inmates had other housekeeping and maintenance tasks, and a small number worked in the kitchen facilities. In Korydallos Men’s Prison, for example, only about 25% of the inmate population were provided with some sort of work. At Larissa Prison, about 45% of the inmates worked, and at Ioannina and Komotini Prisons it was around 30%. Nevertheless, the delegation observed that efforts were made to create and rotate “jobs” in order to enable prisoners to earn time off their sentences in line with early release schemes introduced by the Greek authorities in recent years. However, the approach to work, as already described in the 2009 and 2011 visit reports,67 remains a remission scheme, rather than a means by which to engage prisoners in a purposeful activity or to form part of a personal development plan or preparation for release. The CPT recommends that the Greek authorities make every effort to increase the number of work opportunities available in prisons, preferably work with a vocational value. 66 67 See CPT/Inf (2006) 41, paragraph 93. See CPT/Inf (2010) 33, paragraph 106; and CPT/Info (2012) 1, paragraph 59.