CAT/C/39/2 page 70 (j) Create, for the members of entities responsible for the follow-up of penal execution in penitentiaries, an open program for training in the application of socio-educative measures in units of internment of adolescents and in the treatment of persons in other places of deprivation of freedom, according to the directives contained in the Optional Protocol. The training should also qualify agents for carrying out more effective inspections, according to international criteria for the protection and promotion of human rights and prevention of torture; (k) Encourage and promote personnel qualification for the creation of Community Councils, as provided for in the Law of Penal Execution; (l) Widen, improve, qualify and stimulate the practice, at all levels, of free legal assistance to persons deprived of freedom. Such measures guarantee the rights of individuals in following inquiry and procedures, and prevent torture. 298. The following actions to make aggressors answerable have been provided for: (a) System; Creation of specific corregedorias for the Police System and the Penitentiary (b) Creation of independent ouvidorias in both systems to receive denunciations of torture and follow investigations. It is possible to collect the existing laws on the matter - for instance, the one that created the ouvidoria of the Police of São Paulo - and elaborate a draft bill that can be repeated in the sates or voted in the National Congress. Articulation with state and federal governments to send the draft to the Legislative; (c) Creation of specialized groups of prosecutors to fight torture, making them aware that at the time of denunciation the incident should be inscribed under the penal classification of torture. Include the issue in meetings of the National College of General prosecutors. Organize national experiences and formulate proposals to be introduced by the Public Prosecutor Offices in the federal and state levels and in the Federal District; (d) Articulate with the Public Prosecutor offices the need to revert the burden of proof in cases of allegation of torture. In cases where denunciation of torture or other forms of ill treatment are brought by a defendant at a trial, the burden of proof should be transferred to the public prosecution so that it proves that the confession was not obtained by illicit means, including torture or ill treatment; (e) Adoption of measures that speed up the investigation of denunciations of torture and ill treatment and that lead to dismissal of personnel involved; (f) Train health care professionals who work in the prison system to register and adopt proper legal procedure in cases of torture and ill treatment suffered by inmates. Launching, on December 2 2005, the Brazilian Expert Examination Protocol, which contains, inter alia, the chief recommendations of the Istanbul Protocol “International Code of Conduct” for forensic physicians; (g) Articulate with the Federal Council of Medicine the awareness of doctors to communicate to competent authorities the practice of the crime of torture, stressing the aspect of penal offense typified in article 66, II, of Decree-Law 3688;41.

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