E/CN.4/2002/77/Add.2 page 25 delegation visited. Prisoners serving long-term sentences are housed at Jaw prison, where there were 253 inmates. All women deprived of their liberty are held at Isa Town prison, which housed 24 inmates on the day of the visit, of whom six had been convicted. Convicted prisoners are segregated from the other categories of detainees (remand prisoners and foreigners being held pending expulsion). 90. The prisons are not overcrowded owing to the amnesty mentioned earlier, and as a result conditions of detention are on the whole satisfactory. On the day of the visit to “Dry Dock Camp”, which used to house several hundred political prisoners, there were a mere four foreigners in administrative detention, all of whom were serving light sentences and awaiting expulsion from Bahrain. Prison visits and communication with family members and lawyers are permitted, and medical coverage is theoretically available. All the inmates are in prison pursuant to a decision by a court that they should be deprived of their liberty. 91. The provisions of the Penitentiary Code are somewhat obsolete and no longer reflect the reality of conditions of detention in Bahrain. The authorities intend to promulgate a new code reflecting the new methods of dealing with offenders and in keeping with the guidelines contained in the booklet distributed to prison officers, a copy of which was passed to the delegation. This booklet reflects contemporary thinking on the rehabilitation and reabsorption of prisoners into society, and stresses that their dignity must be respected. 3. Imprisonment for insolvency 92. Imprisonment for debt is particularly common. Under Legislative Decree No. 5 amending article 170 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, anyone sentenced to pay a fine may be imprisoned for up to one year to compel performance. Moreover, the Code of Civil Procedure contains a provision stating that, against a daily payment of 45 dinars to the State, a creditor is entitled to have a recalcitrant debtor imprisoned for up to three months to compel him to pay is debt. 93. Imprisonment for contractual debt is a breach of international law (article 11 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) even if, as here, the Penitentiary Code specifies that this category of prisoners must be treated in the same way as remand prisoners and minors under 16. Article 170 of the Code of Criminal Procedure outlines a whole procedure for effecting this type of imprisonment, but according to sources questioned by the delegation, the duration of imprisonment to compel performance is specified in the judgement and the measure is applied immediately and systematically even if the convicted person is genuinely insolvent. The provisions on imprisonment to compel performance remain unaltered in the draft code of criminal procedure, except that the judgement is no longer enforced by the court handing down the decision but is handled by the judge responsible for the execution of sentences. Such detainees may be divided into three categories: (a) Insolvent detainees unable to pay a fine imposed on them by a court; (b) Detainees remaining in pre-trial detention because of inability to post bail;