A/68/44 (f) Consider recruiting additional judges and constructing new courtrooms in the country. Conditions of detention (13) The Committee is deeply concerned by: (a) The alarming conditions in detention centres throughout the country, particularly in Lomé, some of which are tantamount to torture given that remand prisoners awaiting trial are packed into cells measuring 7 metres by 6 metres in groups of 60 to 90, while sentenced prisoners are packed into cells of 6 metres by 5 metres in groups of 50 to 60. It is also concerned by the tiny size of the cells in the prison of Notsé and particularly those in the Kara military camp, where the detention of soldiers in punishment cells measuring 112 cm by 90 cm constitutes a violation of the Convention. Furthermore, overcrowding is currently in the region of 156 per cent on average; (b) The lack of hygiene, ventilation, lighting and bedding, as well as the lack of food, which consists of a single meal a day, as described in the initial report, and is said to be of poor quality; (c) The almost total lack of access to health care and medication and the fact that sick prisoners are only transferred to hospital when they are practically at death’s door. The Committee is concerned in particular about the health of Captain Lambert Adjinon, who is being held in the civil prison in Lomé and apparently has a tumour for which he is not receiving treatment. This would appear to run counter to the decision of the Council of Ministers of 29 February 2012 to make medical care available to all persons in custody or in detention at any stage of proceedings, as recommended in one of the 13 measures to be implemented following the publication of the report of the National Human Rights Commission; (d) The conditions, described by the State party itself as appalling, in the custody facilities of police stations and gendarmeries, where many detainees are kept for long periods with no legal justification; (e) The high and increasing number of deaths in detention, in particular as a result of a lack of food and hygiene, as well as violence among prisoners (arts. 2, 11 and 16). The State party should: (a) Redouble efforts and increase funding to bring living conditions in all prisons into line with international standards and the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners; (b) Implement the declaration made by the representatives of Togo to the Committee at its forty-ninth session to the effect that all pending cases will be tried in January 2013 to reduce prison overcrowding by 50 per cent; (c) In order to ease overcrowding in places of detention, adopt a precise timetable for the construction of new prisons, including in Lomé and Kpalimé, and for the renovation of existing prisons and facilities, as well as increasing the number of prison officers in all such establishments; and ensure that the size of cells is in line with international standards; (d) Increase funding for basic services, including access to drinking water, at least two meals a day, hygienic conditions and basic necessities, and ensure that there is sufficient natural and artificial light and ventilation in cells; provide medical and psychosocial care for prisoners with a view to preventing deaths in detention; GE.13-46043 89