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sentences;
Provide a swift appeal process for the review of convictions and
(o)
Divert some of the funds used for incarceration to support the work of
the Judicial Committee established to consider alternative measures.
100.
With regard to conditions of detention, the Government should:
(a)
Recall that, regardless of the level of development of the country, it is
obliged to ensure minimum standards of conditions of detention in accordance with
the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners;
(b)
Provide the minimum acceptable amount of floor space and cubic
quantity of air per inmate, a separate bed and adequate sanitary conditions;
(c)
Urgently improve access to, and the quality of, health care provided by
the infirmaries by investing in them financially to ensure they provide a minimum
standard of medical care, and employ a sufficient number of qualified doctors,
including for psychiatric and dental care, in addition to medical assistants and nurses;
(d)
Establish an independent body under the Ministry of Health to regulate
and improve the quantity and quality of the food;
(e)
Partner with the Ministry of Agriculture and the private sector to find
additional resources to expand the farming programme to more prisons, especially the
open prisons, in order to offset food costs and provide better variety and nutrition.
Even prisons with a higher security classification could establish a secure setting and
designate physical space inside the grounds for farming projects;
(f)
End the practice of denying children under 18 the right to visit family
members in prison, and establish meaningful family visits, including the ability to
communicate in private without being overheard by renovating facilities to include
basic amenities such as family visit centres;
(g)
Realize the principles of rehabilitation and reintegration and seek
assistance to provide all prisoners with the opportunity to access educational and
work opportunities, including sustainable training programmes, such as in farming,
cooking, trades and small business, in order to gain relevant skills that can be applied
upon release;
(h)
Seek donations from churches and NGOs to provide the prisons with
books, writing materials and equipment such as sewing machines and woodwork or
metalwork supplies and to support recreational activities.
101.
With regard to the death penalty, the Government should:
(a)
Give effect to the white paper of the Constitutional Review
Implementation Committee, which was tasked with implementing the
recommendations of the Constitutional Review Commission, and hold a referendum
to change the Constitution, including an official moratorium and abolition of the
death penalty;
(b)
Commute all outstanding death sentences to term sentences and
formalize the current de facto moratorium on the death penalty by abolishing the
death penalty for murder, a statutory offence which does not require the Constitution
to be amended;
(c)
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty;
(d)
Develop a public awareness strategy, in consultation with NGOs, to
educate civil society about the cruel and inhuman treatment that results in persons
being sentenced to death and detained for years on death row.
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