5.  The applicant was born in 1954. At present he is serving his prison sentence in Jilava Prison. 6.  On 11 October 2011 the High Court of Cassation and Justice sentenced the applicant to ten years’ imprisonment. 7.  Since 23 September 2009 the applicant has been held in a number of different detention centres. Initially he was detained in Bucharest police station and then transferred to Rahova and Jilava Prisons. In respect of the establishments in which he was detained, the applicant alleged that he had been kept in overcrowded cells in poor conditions of hygiene. He also alleged that, despite the fact that he was a non-smoker, he had been detained with inmates who smoked inside the cell in all three prisons. He claimed that his health had worsened because of the conditions in which he had been kept and that he had been diagnosed with tuberculosis. 8.  The Government supplied the following details concerning the conditions of the applicant’s detention in each establishment: 9.  The applicant was detained in Bucharest police station no. 15 between 23 and 30 September 2009 and again from 9 October to 24 November 2009, in cell no. 3. 10.  Cell no. 3 had a surface area of 16.25 square metres and was occupied by six detainees. 11.  The applicant was detained in Rahova Prison for the following periods: from 24 November 2009 to 7 June 2011; from 16 June 2011 to 20 January 2012; from 26 January to 2 April 2012 and from 4 April to 8 June 2012. 12.  The Government submitted that each cell occupied by the applicant during the above-mentioned periods had a surface area of 19.58 square metres and was occupied by between nine and eleven detainees. 13.  The applicant has been detained in Jilava Prison from 8 June 2012 to date.
The cells in which the applicant has been detained are as follows:
- cell E1.16 and E1.20 with a surface area of 12.69 square metres and occupied by up to six detainees;
- cell E3.5 with a surface area of 34.78 square metres and occupied by up to twenty-seven detainees;
- cell E3.8 with a surface area of 51.08 square metres and occupied by up to thirty-five detainees;
- cell E3. 13 with a surface area of 33.08 square metres and occupied by between nineteen and twenty-four detainees;
- cell E6.26 with a surface area of 44.97 square metres and occupied by up to twenty-six detainees;
- cell E4. 35 with a surface area of 44.97 square metres and occupied by up to twenty-three detainees;
- and cell E6.16 with a surface area of 14.71 square metres and occupied by up to twelve detainees.