CAT/C/39/2 page 71 299. Finally, the following actions for sheltering, assisting, protecting and compensating victims are envisaged: (a) Expand the technical and scientific capacity of the Forensic Medicine Institutes (IML) or Institutes of Criminalistics, endowing them with budgetary, administrative and operational autonomy in relation with police departments; (b) Widen cooperation with agencies belonging to public universities for the carrying out corpus delicti examinations; (c) Streamline the carrying out of corpus delicti examinations as the inmate enters or leaves the prison, by making available professional physicians on a schedule of duty; (d) Expand and improve services of shelter, assistance and protection to victims; (e) Adopt measures aiming at the compensation of harm caused to victims of abuse of power and excessive use of force by public agents. “188. The extremely poor conditions of detention facilities observed consistently throughout the visit were of deep concern to the Committee members. There is a constant threat of violent riots in detention centres, with the danger of such incidents increasing as a direct result of poor conditions. Overcrowding is endemic and the majority of the centres visited lack adequate facilities. Moreover, the Committee members observed that the detention centres do not have programmes to help reintegrate detainees into society. A large percentage of the detainees do not have access to education or to any vocational activity. This situation particularly affects persons with low income who belong to disadvantaged groups. Their prolonged detention reduces their possibilities of social reintegration, deepening their marginalization and exposing them to other criminal activities.” 300. The Brazilian Government has been striving to allocate resources to hasten the re-equipment of state penal facilities - agreements for the purchase of metal detectors, X-ray equipment, vehicles for transportation of inmates, computers, medical and clinic equipment, etc. - besides direct purchases for donation to the states. There is, therefore, a better use of resources, as a consequence of integrated projects. With high-tech equipment and immediate results at local systems. In 2006 alone about R$75.5 million were invested in the re-equipment of penal facilities, with special emphasis on the allocation of R$45 million to the state of São Paulo and he purchase of 62 vehicles for transportation of inmates for 11 states. 301. Furthermore, large investments have been made in expanding space at the prison system. In 2006, about R$ 170.1 million were spent in state financing policies to create 7,720 new places in the state penitentiary system. Special mention should be made to the creation of 6,992 new places, the result of agreements made in previous years that were continued in 2006. There was also an investment of R$12.3 million on the reform of penal facilities in the states.