A/HRC/16/52/Add.3 Diamond Crest Juvenile Correctional Centre for Girls, Alligator Pond, St Elizabeth Visited on 17 February 2010 General information 99. The Special Rapporteur was received by Superintendent Marlette White and Deputy Superintendent Molly Plummer. At the time of the visit, 36 girls were in detention in 10 dorms; two babies were at the facility with their mothers. In total 41 staff were working at Diamond Crest. 100. Diamond Crest had opened on 28 May 2009 to accommodate 15 girls who had been detained at Armadale, but was now also open to other girls. There were 24 girls who had been convicted, 11 were there for uncontrollable behavior and one for care and protection. They had academic, vocational and recreational activities during the day. Counselling sessions with a psychiatrist and a chaplain were offered. After the fire at Armadale, the girls had received an intense counselling programme. The grills on the veranda were closed at 7:00 p.m., but the dorms did not have locks on the door. The girls could receive visitors during the weekend and sometimes during the week as well. There had been no escape attempts. The disciplinary measures employed at Diamond Crest included extra chores and the banning of visits and/or telephone calls, depending on a decision by the disciplinary committee. There were no isolation or punishment cells. Ten dormitories with three or four sets of bunks housed the girls. Babies could stay at Diamond Crest up to one year, but in most cases were taken away after six months. 101. One of the house mothers who had worked at Armadale noted that the fire occurred in one dorm, which was on the ground floor of an office building. She added that some of the more than 20 girls had to share a bed because of the overcrowding at Armadale. 102. Diamond Crest Juvenile Correctional Centre certainly constituted a best practice. During the visit all girls were outside in the garden area, playing games, doing sports, singing and enjoying themselves. The conditions of the dorms were excellent. The Superintendent, a trained social worker, and her Deputy, a social worker and psychologist, seemed to be highly professional and human rights minded. There were no complaints of ill-treatment. Individual cases 103. L. S., aged 17, had been detained at Armadale, but was not injured in the fire. She did not report any ill-treatment, and noted that a doctor visited Diamond Crest three times per week, and a psychiatrist once per week. 104. V. E., aged 15, had been at Diamond Crest for two months, after she was sentenced to three years for being uncontrollable. Some of the girls beat her and did not want to be her friends. She had been at Grandville, a place of safety, but ran away. She had originally run away from home because her father beat her. 105. S. F., aged 16, had been sentenced to four years, and had been in custody for almost two years. She had been detained at Armadale for a long time. The girls were frequently locked down at Armadale. There were more recreational and academic activities at Diamond Crest, and the food was better as well. She had never been beaten at Armadale, but other girls had. The day of the fire, some girls were misbehaving and planning to escape, after they had been in lock-down for eight days. They were able to take the grill off the window, but it looked fixed from the outside. Because the girls were misbehaving, the police officers came and threw tear gas through the window inside the dormitory. The tear gas blazed, even though none of the girls had lighters. Although she thought about it every 41