A/HRC/19/61/Add.2 not to investigate; in others, prosecutors did not interrogate the victim about allegations, nor were steps taken to question witnesses or medical personnel. 57. While the Special Rapporteur is encouraged by the concrete steps taken by the Prosecutor General vis-à-vis the recent instructions (see paragraph 34 above), it remains to be seen how these directives will be implemented at the city and provincial levels. C. Conditions of detention 1. Temporary and pretrial detention facilities 58. Currently, all 47 temporary detention facilities are under the oversight of the Ministry of the Interior. The State Committee for National Security has its own pretrial detention facilities in Bishkek and Osh. The average length of stay at a pretrial detention facility varies from 9 to 12 months. All 11 correctional colonies, including three institutions for tuberculosis patients, a juvenile penitentiary, a colony for women, six pretrial detention facilities and 15 settlement colonies are under the jurisdiction of the State Service for the Execution of Punishments. 59. The Special Rapporteur acknowledges that the prison population has significantly dropped in recent years, from 16,934 in 2004 to 9,698 in 2011 12 (not including the temporary and pretrial detention facilities of the National Security Committee). It is worth noting, however, that the penitentiary policies applied have an essentially punitive nature rather than aim at reintegrating prisoners into society. The execution of sentences still consists of placing convicted persons in standard, reinforced or strict regime penal colony settlements. 60. The Special Rapporteur observed that conditions in a temporary detention facility, a pretrial detention facility and a penal colony varied from being adequate (pretrial detention facilities No. 1 in Bishkek and No. 25 in Osh) to unsatisfactory (most temporary detention facilities visited) to appalling (Kara Suu district pretrial detention facility in Osh province). Most facilities visited were characterized by unsanitary conditions and poor or non-existent ventilation or daylight; most lacked heating. In temporary detention facilities built as early as 1923, inmates are confined for 23 hours a day to their poorly illuminated cells with little or no ventilation and minimum food and water. Cells contain four to six mattresses on the floor or on bunk beds and provide little space for movement. In most temporary detention facilities, showers with no hot water were located at an outside court and access to them was restricted to once a week. In some temporary detention facilities, detainees are allowed to use the toilet only twice a day at scheduled times; it is also their only opportunity to walk. Access to water for washing is extremely restricted. Meals are of very poor quality, and in most facilities, consist of only one serving a day, plus hot water for tea. Families are allowed to bring supplementary food supplies. 61. Tuberculosis patients in facilities visited were separated. In almost all temporary and pretrial detention facilities visited, there was no separation between convicted and pretrial inmates. Most detainees indicated that their arrest had been confirmed by a court within the first 48 hours, as provided by law (albeit counted from the initial interrogation, not the actual detention). Most inmates interviewed confirmed that, however, their detention in a temporary detention facility continued after that court hearing instead of being remanded to a pretrial detention facility, as the law would require. Continued detention in temporary detention facilities can last from one month to several months, and even a year. This was explained by the fact that transfers from a temporary to a pretrial detention facility are only 12 Figures provided in the draft national strategy on penal enforcement system development for the period 2011- 2015 “UMUT - 2”. 15