Further measures proposed by the Special Rapporteur T he Special Rapporteur would like to extend its support to the recommendations contained in the UNDP report The prison system in Mozambique, December 2000. The Special Rapporteur would like also to propose a certain number of specific concrete actions. General recommendations (a) Prison tehahilitation should be intensified and the building of prisons started years ago should be completed to allow for the transfer of prisoners to more humane places. All efforts should be made to ensure that prisoners are detained in purpose-built premises. (b)Measures towards the separation of different categories of prisoners should be undertaken as overcrowding is brought down. (c) Sleeping conditions should be as good as possible for all prisoners and damp-free sleeping accommodation should be ensured. (d)The quantity and quality of food and containers should be improved. (e) The shower, toilets and washing facilities should be restored to a good state of repair and maintained in a hygienic condition in all places where problems were observed. (0 The efforts to increase the number of work and vocational training places should be intensified. (g)A better range of activities should be offered to any remand prisoner staying for a lengthy period. (h)More prisons' activity programmes (including education, sport and recreational activities) should be Introduced as overcrowding is brought down. (i) Ventilation should be improved in establishments where problems were observed. (j) The visiting conditions should be reviewed in order to ensure that prisoners are able to receive visits and that families do not have to pay guards. (k)The new prison policy should investigate the possibility of setting up a national independent monitoring mechanism outside the prison administration that could visit prisons regularly and make all necessary recommendations 38 Health recommendations (a) Doctors should be recruited for the larger prisons in full-time positions and existing para-medical staff should be strengthened to ensure attendance by general practitioners amounting to the equivalent of the presence of a full-time doctor; assistance by an appropriate number of qualified nurses; and ready access for prisoners to a dentist. (b)Renovation of existing health infrastructures should be intensified extension and creation of health mfrastructuies in the large prisons that do not have such facilities. These structures should include observation beds and an isolation room for contagious diseases. The prison directors may also order that prisoners suffering from an infectious disease, or who are a danger to themselves or others, be accommodated in a special cell. Such a measure is to be lifted as soon as the reason that caused its imposition disappears; if that reason persists, the prisoner concerned is to be transferred to a specialist State hospital for treatment. All other complementary measures should be taken so as to provide full 24-hour medical services. (c) AIDS education programmes in prisons should be intensified. Furthermore, voluntary testing for AIDS in prisoners should be encouraged and suitable structures should be put in place for the psychological and medical support of prisoners who decide to take this test, HIV positive prisoners, and those already suffering from AIDS. (d)The position of Head Prison Doctor should be created who would be an integral part of national prison management within the Department of liist ice and Home Office whose responsibilities would include the in ',anon of periodical inspection visits to prisons to examine how ti Lit prison medical services are functioning. Young people (a) Spec ialised units for juveniles should be developed and in the meantime strict separation between adults and young people should be maintained. (b) Young persons in custody should be provided with a Rill regime of educational, recreational and other purposeful activities. Physical education should constitute a significant element of that regime. 39