CAT/OP/MEX/1/Add.2 291. Mexico state has strengthened the specialized programmes undertaken in the areas of education, employment, occupational therapy and psychotherapy and 10,251 persons in custody are enrolled in literacy, primary, secondary and preparatory classes or on introductory workshop courses within the prison education system, representing a level of educational coverage of 57 per cent of the prison population. In addition, it has organized 295 civic, sporting, recreational and artistic events for prisoners with the aim of reinforcing their rehabilitation treatment. 292. With regard to prison work, 16,963 inmates engage in occupational activities such as general services and handicrafts, representing a rate of participation in work therapy activities of over 90 per cent of the total prison population. 293. The state has provided 26,713 medical consultations for prisoners, who, in cases where required, are transferred to secondary-level public hospitals. It has also undertaken 18,416 preventive medicine initiatives. 294. Mobile telephone signal blocking devices designed to disrupt inmates’ wireless calls were introduced in September 2010 by the Mexico state government at the remand and social rehabilitation centres of Santiaguito in Almoloya de Juárez, Netzahualcóyotl Bordo de Xochiaca, Lic. Juan Fernández Albarrán in Tlalnepantla de Baz and Dr. Sergio García Ramírez in Ecatepec de Morelos and are now also in operation at the Otumba Tapachico prison in Chalco, the Dr. Alfonso Quiroz Cuarón prison in Texcoco de Mora and the Cuautitlán and Valle de Bravo prisons, together covering over 92 per cent of the prison population. 295. Work has begun on adapting one prison to accommodate women only, where they will be able to serve the custodial sentences imposed on them by the judicial authority and receive specialized medical care and social rehabilitation treatment. 296. There are currently 31 children aged between 0 months and 2 years living with their mothers in prison. They were all born during their mothers’ incarceration and their births took place in health service hospitals to avoid their being stereotyped. They receive specialized medical care and, when required, are transferred to health service hospitals for treatment and vaccination. Also, the social work unit is responsible for seeking donations of clothing, nappies, milk and food for these children and their mothers. 297. Account has been taken of the fact that, while children need maternal care up to a certain age, there is a risk of their suffering physical abuse given that the female prison population includes murderers and child killers, who may inflict irreparable harm. They may also be the cause of altercations between female inmates. 298. It is felt from a psychological standpoint that a child should only remain with its mother until it is two years old, beyond which age it requires more specialized care since images which may harm it in childhood are recorded in its brain. When it reaches this age, arrangements are accordingly made by prison social work staff with the jailed mother’s relatives for them to take custody of the child, in all cases under the legal supervision of the municipal schemes for comprehensive family development to ensure that all action taken is in conformity with the law. 299. If a child’s mother does not have relatives who can assume responsibility for it, temporary guardianship is granted so that the child can be cared for under the state scheme for comprehensive family development until its mother is discharged from prison. 300. With regard to young persons in conflict with the law, Mexico state operates the Quinta del Bosque social rehabilitation school, where there are currently 261 juveniles in custody (24 females and 237 males), and 20 regional youth rehabilitation centres, which annually provide specialized non-custodial care for over 380 juveniles. GE.13-41196 (EXT) 81