8. Monitoring Risk In Specific Situations to do so. Those who have been sent to prison or released might feel more able to report abuse. Monitors can try to determine: • Were lawyers allowed to be present during individual interrogations? • Were detainees’ interviews audio-recorded? • Was SGBV, including verbal abuse and threats, used during the interrogations? Focus on specific groups Some groups may be more vulnerable than others during interrogation, including children, women and girls, members of minority and indigenous groups, and foreign nationals or others who don’t speak the language of the arresting authorities. LGBTI persons are particularly at risk of abuse during arrest and interrogation, especially in contexts where same-sex relations and non-binary identities are criminalized. LGBTI persons in prostitution report particularly high levels of abuse in police custody and during interrogations. Police officers might also threaten to disclose a detainee’s sexual orientation or gender identity in order to force a confession or to extort money from them. When focussing on specific groups, monitors could consider the following: • Are interpreters available during interrogations for those who do not speak the language? • Do police officers use any offensive language or threatening actions when interrogating LGBTI persons? • Have police officers received any training on interrogating specific groups of detainees, including age – and gender-sensitive approaches? 8.3 Allocation and Supervision The appropriate allocation and supervision of detainees/prisoners is critical in ensuring their protection against SGBV. Women should always be held separately from men, and juveniles should always be held separately from adults. Women should be attended and supervised only by female staff members. All detainees/prisoners should be allocated to the appropriate facilities based on individual, ongoing risk and needs assessments, to avoid allocating potential victims of abuse in the same cells as likely perpetrators. The allocation of LGBTI detainees/ prisoners, particularly transgender and intersex persons, is especially important in this regard. In some facilities, women and men, adults and children and detainees/prisoners with different security classifications may be allowed to interact with each other outside of their cells, such as at recreation time or during vocational training. Where this hap- 42