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inspect all places of detention regularly. In addition to making unannounced visits, it
should provide detailed reports, receive complaints, initiate or promote prosecutions,
produce findings and implement recommendations;
(d)
Encourage NGOs to undertake regular monitoring of places of detention
and deliver much-needed medical and educational services, and provide training for
law enforcement, health and legal professionals on international human rights
standards and on detecting, reporting and preventing torture and ill-treatment.
99.
To address overcrowding, the Government should:
(a)
Accelerate the process of getting the maximum security prison in
Ankaful operating at higher capacity by identifying prison staff and prisoners who
can be transferred to this facility from surrounding prisons in Ankaful;
(b)
Build residential staff accommodation at Ankaful maximum security
prison so that more prison officers from around the country can be deployed and
more prisoners transferred there;
(c)
Identify a timeline and funding for the second phase of construction at
Ankaful maximum security prison so the project can be completed;
(d)
Identify low-risk prisoners in the central prisons and move them to open
and farm camp prisons;
(e)
Bring responsibility for remand inmates under the authority of the
Prisons Service, rather than the Police Service, to ensure their attendance at court;
(f)
Ensure that no remand inmates remain in prison beyond the expiry of
their warrants;
(g)
Expand the terms of reference of the “Justice for All” programme in two
ways: geographically, so that remand prisoners in all regions are visited to check
whether warrants have expired or time has already been served; and in scope, so that
the programme is mandated to consider and accelerate cases, not only of pretrial
detention, but also those for which appeals have been filed, or inmates have already
served lengthy sentences, to see if those cases can be judicially reviewed and releases
accelerated;
(h)
Review non-violent offences for which bail is currently not available, to
offer the possibility of bail and effective monitoring of cases to reduce the number of
remand prisoners;
(i)
Review the lengthy judicial proceedings that lead to a substantial
number of prisoners on remand being denied the right to a trial within a reasonable
period;
(j)
Ensure that time spent in remand custody is taken into account during
sentencing;
(k)
Review sentencing policies to reduce or eliminate mandatory minimum
sentences for lesser, non-violent offences and provide more reasonable sentencing
guidelines in order to reduce excessively lengthy sentences;
(l)
Extend eligibility for remission or commutation of sentences, parole or
pardon to those serving lengthy sentences in addition to those “condemned” or serving
life sentences, to whom this option has already been extended;
(m) Provide further training in judicial case management for judges and
staff to implement a “fast-track system” for less serious cases and move them more
efficiently through the criminal justice system;
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