31 RECOMMENDATIONS The recommendations below have been made in the full knowledge that Mali is a poor country which has recently begun on the road of parliamentary democracy. Its limited resources will slow measures which require a lot of capital, but other problems facing prisons need to be and can be addressed immediately. 1. Mopti prison requires urgent and early attention. Cells 1 and 2 where inmates are held 24 hours a day except when they go out for shower or toilet should have windows to let in light and air. This regime should be improved upon. 2. Chaining of prisoners, especially those in cells should cease. 3. Assault and battery of prisoners in Mopti prison should cease. An inquiry should be conducted into the conduct of the guards at Mopti in relation to their treatment of prisoners for the necessary action to be taken. Guards should be trained to avoid assaulting prisoners. 4. Serious attention should be paid to the question of the many inmates who are on remand with a view to giving them early trial or releasing them. Fewer prisoners will free resources to he used in the many areas crying for attention in the penal system of Mali. 5. Tombouctou, Goundam and Mopti prisons are in danger of caving in, and should receive urgent attention. 6. Admittedly, the huge expanse of the country does not make transportation easy, but keeping female prisoners in private houses is not satisfactory. 7.The new prisons under construction or yet to he built, should have separate sections for women and juveniles if separate structures cannot be built for them. 8. Remand prisoners should be separated from convicts. 9. Ways and means should be found to ease the tense atmosphere in what has been described as the first part or section of Bamako Central prison. The constant confinement of most of them may produce another disturbance. 10.A guard should not be made to work 24 hours, seven days continuously as seems to be the rule in Mopti, Tombouctou