A/HRC/34/54/Add.2 (c) including: Adopt and implement measures to significantly reduce overcrowding, (i) Overhauling the prison system to reduce the number of detainees and increasing prison capacities in more modern prison facilities; (ii) Accelerating the judicial process and reviewing sentencing policies by introducing alternatives to incarceration (bail and electronic surveillance for pretrial defendants; non-custodial sentences for non-violent offenders and juveniles; parole and early release for the convicted); (d) Design a criminal justice system that aims at rehabilitating and reintegrating offenders, including by creating work and education opportunities; (e) Allocate sufficient budgetary resources to provide adequate health care by employing a sufficient number of qualified professionals and providing infirmaries in detention centres with adequate equipment and medicines; (f) Ensure the daily presence of truly independent and qualified medical health staff, including psychiatric and dental specialists, in all places of deprivation of liberty, in cooperation with the public health services, to perform a medical entrance examination for all detainees, conduct regular check-ups and provide medical assistance as necessary; (g) Monitor the quantity and quality of food and water and ensure adequate sanitary and hygienic conditions, satisfactory ventilation and adequate access to exercise, sunlight and recreational activities; (h) Authorize more frequent family visits and facilitate them by providing transportation and other support for indigent families; (i) Purchase and use body and parcel scanners, as promised by the Ministry of Prison Reforms, Rehabilitation, Resettlement and Hindu Religious Affairs, to address the indignity of invasive body searches of family members visiting detainees; (j) Install telephones or computers for inmates so that they are able to communicate with their families. 118. Regarding safeguards and prevention, the Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government: (a) Immediately shut down any unofficial detention facilities that may still be in existence; (b) Ensure prompt and official registration of all persons deprived of their liberty and periodically inspect records at police and prison facilities to ensure that they are maintained in accordance with the established procedures; failure to do so would entail investigating senior officers and holding them accountable; (c) Digitize all registrations and records of all persons deprived of their liberty and make them accessible to the National Human Rights Commission; (d) Guarantee that access to lawyers through the Legal Aid Commission or bar association or other service is granted, in law and in practice, from the moment of deprivation of liberty and throughout all stages of criminal proceedings; (e) End the practice of incommunicado detention during the initial hours at unofficial detention locations; 20

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