E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 20 assistants. He believed that petty offenders and drug addicts should not be put there. The President drew the attention of the Special Rapporteur to the fact that owing to the very harsh conditions of work in FEBEM institutions, such as duty shifts of more than 24 hours and a high level of stress, in particular during revolts or attempted escapes, a large number of staff - more than 300 - were on sick leave for depression and other psychological reasons and had not been replaced. It was also recognized that some were on unjustified sick leave for long periods. Staff on sick leave were also said to be under pressure to go back on duty after a certain period if they did not want to lose 50 per cent of their salary. He nevertheless expressed his commitment to rehabilitation programmes and hoped that they could actually be implemented under good conditions. According to the President, most of the revolts are foreseen by monitores who accordingly inform FEBEM authorities who are believed not to heed their warnings. C. State of Rio de Janeiro 1. Police stations 54. On 31 August, the Special Rapporteur visited the first delegacia legal to have been opened in the State of Rio de Janeiro in March 1999. Delegacia legais are part of a widespread project of building police stations designed to be transparent to outside monitoring. The Special Rapporteur considered this to be a most positive initiative. He nevertheless noted that the 1.5-square-metre cell, in which people were said to stay only for a few hours, lacked light. The absence of light was justified by security reasons. Nobody was said to have been detained in this particular police station for more than 24 hours. Four such police stations were said to be currently operating in the city of Rio de Janeiro and three in the State of Rio de Janeiro. According to the Governor, by the end of 2000, 40 others were expected to be operational and by the end of the present administration’s term in 2002, all police stations would be of this sort. 55. On the same day, the Special Rapporteur visited the 54th District Police station, from which all detainees had been transferred on 15 August to either Bangu penitentiary or the 64th District Police station, as the 54th precinct was converted into a delegacia legal. In the 64th District Police station, 272 persons were detained at the time of the visit of the Special Rapporteur, whereas the official capacity was said to be 150. Detainees were said to be let out of their cells during the day and spent most of their time in a small courtyard with little natural light. Fifty-seven persons were detained in a very hot, smelly and dirty cell measuring approximately 30 square metres. A few mattresses were lying on the floor. A hole was used as the toilet and the shower. The Special Rapporteur noted that the prisoners were unevenly distributed among the cells. Detainees explained that they had to pay the guards to be put in a less-crowded cell. The delegada justified the actual distribution by the fact that detainees had to be divided according to the (criminal) gang to which they belonged in order to avoid inmate-on-inmate violence. The Special Rapporteur noted that during the day all detainees were supposed to be together in the courtyard and that no fights had erupted. The delegada then complained about the overcrowding she was made to face because of the lack of places in penitentiaries. She nevertheless also recognized that she had never entered the lock-up. 56. Most of the detainees complained of beatings at the time of arrest and during preliminary interrogation, when asked to sign a confession. A large number of them alleged that they had been beaten by police officers in both this police station and the 64th police station, from which