CAT/C/39/2 page 30 the data provided by the prison Director, a total of 127 women have access to activities, while 83 do not. Pre-trial detainees were not included in this data. The Committee members visited the different workshops of the penitentiary where these activities take place. The Director of the centre informed the Committee members that most of the women were being held for drug trafficking related crimes and homicide. The Committee members also visited the nursery. Overall, there were no complaints of torture. However, there were complaints with respect to the quality of the food and claims that it was often raw. The centre has a register of all incidents that occur. The Committee members also visited the psychiatric detention pavilion for men and received complaints from the detainees relating primarily to lack of legal assistance. Salvador da Bahia 114. On 19 July 2005, the Committee members visited a new prison which was being constructed in Salvador da Bahia. The facility, which at the time of the visit was empty, is very modern with a sophisticated interview room and secure control units. Cells are constructed to accommodate four prisoners, and the capacity of the prison will be 324. There will be separate facilities for those on remand, and those who are sentenced. The facility will cost 6 million reais. 115. The Committee members visited the Penitenciária Lemos de Brito (PLB) which has a capacity of 1422, but housed 1,960 prisoners, all of whom were sentenced. It is a closed facility from which it would be difficult to escape. Twenty percent of detainees were working and receiving 80 per cent of the minimum wage. Detainees, all of whom were young and black, worked inside and outside the prison for eight hours a day and received 30 or 40 reais per month. The conditions in the prison appeared to be good, although the food, prepared in the prison by an outside catering firm, and eaten by prisoners and staff alike, was described as poor and frequently raw. The prison included a relatively pleasant school facility. Prisoners could be visited by their families on the weekend, with spouses being entitled to visit on Friday. 116. A number of prisoners described maltreatment upon arrest, including beatings with sticks, by the police and while waiting for legal assistance. They alleged that medical treatment in the prison was poor. One prisoner indicated that he had been shot on arrest, and that the wound had never properly healed, and that he had to buy his own medicines. A number of prisoners indicated that, although they had served their sentences, they were still in prison. In response to questions being posed about health and dental care, the prison authorities suggested that this was limited, given that the federal authorities had not provided the financial support required, despite their obligations in this context. 117. The Committee members visited row 4 of the centre, as suggested by the NGOs. They did not enter the facility, as the authorities alleged security concerns, but spoke with prisoners at the gate. These included a number of foreign prisoners, two of whom spoke English. They told the Committee members that while hygienic and other conditions were very poor, no one had been subject to direct physical attack. Several did indicate, however, that they had been in prison longer than their sentences provided, and the Committee members were told that police beatings on arrest were routine. At the same time they complained about the punishment cells, claiming that they existed in all Brazilian prisons.