CAT/OP/MLI/1 both shockingly overcrowded cells and others of the same size with far fewer inmates. The placement of detainees in cells where conditions are less appalling is decided not on the basis of objective, official criteria but rather in return for a certain sum paid to prison staff, in other words, on the basis of corruption. The crowding and arbitrary decisions on cell placement combine to exacerbate tension among detainees and between detainees and staff, with a serious impact on discipline. 50. The Subcommittee does not recommend the wholesale construction of new prisons but rather the implementation of the measures outlined in paragraph 30 of this document and the bringing of places of detention into line with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, thereby ensuring respect for the dignity of detainees. Prison regime 51. The prison regime is totally arbitrary and riddled with corruption. Detainees systematically have to pay for their basic rights: the right to receive visits (1,000 CFA francs per visit), the right to receive food from the outside (500 to 1,000 CFA francs), the right to leave one’s cell and walk in the exercise yard (around 10,000 CFA francs) and sometimes even the right not to be beaten. Detainees who do not pay never leave their cell, sometimes for several years, except to use the toilet once or twice a day, which constitutes cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Certain “privileges” may also be bought: avoiding placement in an overcrowded cell (around 50,000 CFA francs); the right to leave the punishment cell (around 15,000 CFA francs); sleeping in a better part of the cell (around 6,000 CFA francs); use of a prison warder’s mobile telephone (around 5,000 CFA francs), and so on. The similarity of the amounts paid in all the prisons visited tends to confirm that they are genuine and demonstrates that this kind of corruption is entrenched in the prison system. 52. The State party should take, as a matter of urgency, the measures needed to ensure that every detainee has access to the open air and to exercise (one hour of exercise in the open air daily is the international minimum rule on the matter),9 outside the time required each day for washing and using the toilet. The State party must also eradicate corruption by punishing perpetrators and informing detainees and their families of their rights. 53. Disciplinary measures are also applied in an arbitrary fashion, without any set criteria, monitoring or record of their application. In some prisons, the delegation found that prisoners considered likely to try to escape were locked in their cells throughout the day. The situation is worsened by the poor security arrangements in some prisons (such as walls that are too low or the lack of a watchtower or an outer wall), prison staff shortages, lack of training and the absence of security equipment. 54. The Subcommittee recommends that the State implement a prisons policy guaranteeing the rights of detainees and that it adopt an official disciplinary regime so that prison management is not left to the whim of prison directors or yard bosses. Similarly, the State should provide prison staff with a minimum of training and the material wherewithal to carry out their tasks effectively and respect human rights. All places of detention should keep a special register of disciplinary measures that records the inmate’s name, the offence committed, which person in authority imposed the measure, the date and hour at which the measure began and ended, and, if applicable, the approval of the decision and the measure by a second person in authority. 9 12 Rule 20 (1), Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. GE.14-41827