Recommendation (A/HRC/7/3/Add.4) recognizing the competence of the Committee against Torture to receive and consider communications from individuals who claim to be victims of a violation of the provisions of the Convention Conditions of detention (p) The release of non-violent offenders from confinement in pretrial detention facilities should be expedited, beginning especially with the most vulnerable groups, such as children and the elderly, and those requiring medical treatment subject to non-custodial measures (i.e. guarantees to appear for trial, at any other stage of the judicial proceeding and, should occasion arise, for execution of the judgement) Situation during visit (A/HRC/7/3/Add.4) (q) Pretrial detainees and convicted prisoners should be strictly separated (r) Detainees under 18 should be separated from adult ones (s) Females should be separated from male detainees (t) The Criminal Procedure Code should be amended to ensure that the automatic recourse to pretrial detention, which is the current de facto general practice, is authorized by a judge strictly There was no strict separation of pretrial and convicted prisoners. There was no strict separation of juveniles and adults. Males and females were separated in most cases. Pretrial detention was ordered by default. Steps taken to implement the recommendations Non-governmental sources: The Federal Ministry of Justice has embarked on a prison “decongestion” scheme; however, so far no tangible results in terms of numbers of people held in pretrial detention has been achieved. There is a policy in place focusing especially on the release of members of vulnerable groups. Several states have commuted sentences or released detainees under amnesties, however this is not done as a matter of routine or in any coordinated way across the federation. It is dependent on the mercy committees of individual states and the benevolence of the state governor A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 page 83 . Non-governmental sources: In most cases the two categories are not strictly separated. Non-governmental sources: Detainees under 18 are not routinely separated from adults. Females are overwhelmingly separated from male detainees. The Criminal Procedure Code of Lagos State has been amended; Ogun State is reviewing its Criminal Procedure Code with a view to amend it; other states have begun preliminary reviews of