CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Implementation of 1997 recommendations In 1997, the Special Rapporteur recommended that: screening and trials process be speeded up special regimes and units for young people be set up. community service be developed. corruption be fought. - beatings of prisoners be stopped. sick people be better attended to. petty offenders not be prosecuted. - prison authorities open to NGOs. prisoners benefit more from the produce of their work, and that hygiene he improved. Most of these recommendations can be reiterated following the 2001 visit. However, the areas of good practice mentioned earlier show that the situation is improving. Health conditions have improved, the prison population has decreased which could mean that screening and trials processes are somehow more effective, and finally, the prison authorities have started to collaborate more with civil society organisations. Requests for information T 36 he Special Rapporteur would be grateful to the Mozambican authorities if they could provide further information on the following issues: Any indication on the actual capacity under Home Affairs prisons. The findings of the Inquiry Commission on the Montepuez case. The achievements so far of "Commissions to strengthen legality": number of persons released, measures taken, etc. The New Prison Policy. Any further indication of the reasons for the prison population's decrease since 1997. 37 it