the Prisons. It called for a list of all prisoners. The file of each prisoner was studied. About 150 prisoners were released while others had their sentences reduced drastically. To illustrate, where there were three convictions to be served consecutively, for a first offender, they were to be served concurrently. It was noted that it was the Prison Service Council which prompted the Committee to undertake the review exercise. Justice Yahya emphasised the point that the work of the Prison Committee in the review of sentences was a judicial exercise. This accounted for the involvement of the Director of Public Prosecution. TUESDAY, 22 JUNE, 1999. i) I met the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Z.B. King on the above date. With him at the meeting were Commissioner Baboucarr Sowe and Superintendent Ebrima M. Camara. The Police Force in the Gambia is divided into 9 divisions. I was given permission to visit any cell of my choice. A Police Station is attached to the divisional headquarters. ii) I took advantage of my presence at the Police headquarters to visit cells of the Police station attached to the headquarters. Cell 1 The Police Officer in charge of the station informed me that it had 12 suspects, and that the Police respect the 72 hours constitutional limit for detention without trial. At first there was objection to my speaking to the suspects, but it was resolved with my being able to do so. One of the suspects informed me that he had been in custody for three weeks without trial. Another let me know that he had been in detention without trial for 90days. A third's detention without trial was 59 days. One suspect calculated his detention without trial as one month plus 29 days. There was also the story of one suspect that he had given money to the police on the understanding that he would be released, but this had not taken place. Ail the other suspects had been in custody without trial beyond 72 hours: Suspect 7 days CC 1 month 6 days CC 16 days C(. 1 month. I was also informed by the inmates that in the early hours of the day of my visit, the total number of suspects in the cell was 39. About 26 of them were taken away. It is noted that 9