MONITORING PLACES OF DETENTION : A PRACTICAL GUIDE 135 “1. In allocating prisoners to different institutions or regimes, due account shall be taken of their judicial and legal situation (untried or convicted prisoner, first offender or habitual offender, short sentence or long sentence), of the special requirements of their treatment, of their medical needs, their sex and age. 2. Males and females shall in principle be detained separately, although they may participate together in organised activities as part of an established treatment programme. 3. In principle, untried prisoners shall be detained separately from convicted prisoners unless they consent to being accommodated or involved together in organised activities beneficial to them. 4. Young prisoners shall be detained under conditions which as far as possible protect them from harmful influences and which take account of the needs peculiar to their age.” EPR, Rule 11 “As a matter of principle, women deprived of their liberty should be held in accommodation which is physically separate from that occupied by any men being held in the same establishment. That said, some States have begun to make arrangements for couples (both of whom are deprived of their liberty) to be accommodated together, and/or for some degree of mixed gender association in prisons. The CPT welcomes such progressive arrangements, provided that the prisoners involved agree to participate, and are carefully selected and adequately supervised.” CPT, GR10, §24 See also: SMR Rule 85; EPR Rules 12 and 13 and ACPR, B-1-b) and IDRCPDL, art. 16. Juveniles “Under article 10, paragraph 3, juvenile offenders shall be segregated from adults and be accorded treatment appropriate to their age and legal status in so far as conditions of detention are concerned”. GC 20 para 13. 2