A/HRC/25/60/Add.1 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; 19

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