CAT/OP/BOL/3 in Santa Cruz, where it held talks with the personnel responsible for security and those in charge of a number of the activities offered there, as well as with the juvenile detainees. 87. The Subcommittee is deeply troubled by the material conditions of detention at both centres. At the Cometa Centre, the Subcommittee encountered serious overcrowding and observed that supplies of drinking water were totally lacking and the adolescents housed there had no access to shower facilities. Both centres exhibited deplorable hygiene and sanitation conditions in cells, kitchen areas and bathrooms (cracks in the walls, unusable toilets, nauseating odours, contaminated water, rat droppings in the kitchen storage areas at CENVICRUZ and flies and insects in or on food). The worst conditions of all were observed in the isolation and punishment cells of both facilities. 88. The Subcommittee was told by a number of the inmates that daily food rations were meagre. 89. The Subcommittee noted that CENVICRUZ is located in a remote area, which makes family visits difficult, and that the adolescents are not allowed to make telephone calls. 90. The Subcommittee takes note with satisfaction of the existence of a micro-hospital and an education centre (established just three months ago) at the CENVICRUZ facility, along with agricultural and crafts workshops and sporting activities for detainees. 91. The Subcommittee observed that the inmates of CENVICRUZ are placed in different sections depending on whether they have been convicted, are being held in pretrial detention or are between 14 and 15 years of age. The Subcommittee is concerned that girls and young women at the Cometa Centre are accommodated in a separate, isolated area and do not have access to the same activities as male inmates. 92. In light of the above, the Subcommittee recommends that: (a) Material conditions in social reintegration centres should be improved immediately, especially with regard to minimum floor space per juvenile detainee, hygiene and ventilation; (b) These centres should be given a sufficient budget to enable them to purchase more plentiful and better-quality food for the adolescents housed there. They should receive at least two meals a day of sufficient nutritional value to maintain their health and strength; (c) The adolescents in these centres should be given at least two litres of drinking water a day, without fail and free of charge; (d) The adolescents in these centres, including those placed in isolation, should have regular access to toilets and showers in which adequate sanitary conditions are maintained and should be provided with beds with mattresses; (e) The necessary steps should be taken to encourage visitors to come to the centres by providing free transportation for friends and family members and to increase inmates’ contact with the outside world by, inter alia, allowing them to make telephone calls at least once a week; (f) Efforts should be undertaken to provide greater education and vocational training opportunities to the adolescents in these centres. D. Courthouse holding cells 93. The Subcommittee visited the police holding cells located at the courts of justice in Santa Cruz and La Paz and took note with concern of the overcrowding and unsatisfactory conditions in those cells. 16 GE.18-12272