- 100 - a formal register to be established in every segregation unit, setting out full details of persons held (i.e. date and time of entering and leaving the unit; grounds for the detention and destination on departure; cell occupied, etc) (paragraph 140); - all cells in segregation units to be equipped with a call bell and a member of staff to be always present in such units when they hold prisoners (paragraph 140); - the Greek authorities to take the necessary steps to ensure that, whenever a prisoner held in cellular confinement, irrespective of the reason for that measure, requests to see a medical doctor - or a prison officer asks for one on his behalf - the doctor is called without delay to examine the prisoner. The results of the medical examination, including an account of the prisoner's mental and physical condition as well as, if need be, the foreseeable consequences of continued confinement, to be set out in a written report to be forwarded to the competent authorities (paragraph 141). comments - young persons in custody should be provided with a full regime of educational, recreational and other purposeful activities. Physical education should constitute a significant element of that regime. Moreover, the staff assigned to units accommodating juveniles should be carefully chosen and, more specifically, be persons capable of guiding and motivating young people (paragraphs 116 and 121); - the Greek authorities are invited to review visiting arrangements in prisons in order to ensure as far as possible that prisoners are able to receive visits under reasonably open conditions (paragraph 129); - a right of appeal to a higher authority should exist in respect of all types of disciplinary sanctions (paragraph 131); - it would be desirable for cells accommodating prisoners undergoing the disciplinary sanction of confinement in a special cell to be fitted with a table and chair, if necessary fixed to the floor (paragraph 135). c. requests for information - information on the safeguards which apply when the measure of confinement in a special cell is applied "for the maintenance of order and for purposes of protection and pacification in penal institutions" and against the wishes of the prisoner concerned (right to be informed of the reasons for the measure; right to be heard; review procedures; right of appeal to a higher authority, etc.) (paragraph 132); - whether the right to bring complaints before a court provided for in Rule 5 of the Code of basic rules for the treatment of prisoners, extends to remand prisoners (paragraph 143); - comments of the Greek authorities on the idea of creating a visiting committee for each prison establishment (paragraph 144).

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