CAT/C/SLE/CO/1 (d) The reported lack of separation between suspects, and remanded and convicted prisoners; (e) Lack of an Earning Scheme for prisoners, as mandated by sections 19, 20 and 21 of the Prison Rules of 1961. As acknowledged in the State report, prisoners are requested to “labour in government offices and private residences without any compensation” (CAT/C/SLE/1, para. 70); (f) Ineffectiveness of internal complaints procedures and inspection mechanisms (arts. 2, 11 and 16). The State party should redouble its efforts to improve detention conditions and to ensure that they conform to the Convention and with the appropriate provisions of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, which are currently under revision. To this end, it should, inter alia: (a) Adopt the necessary legislative, judicial, administrative and other measures to regulate the conditions of detention in police and local court cells and ensure that the Correctional Services Bill complies with these recommendations; (b) Allocate sufficient resources and adopt a precise time frame for the renovation, maintenance and construction of prisons and detention facilities, as undertaken by the State delegation; (c) Ensure, as a minimum, access to basic services, including access to water for drinking and other use, at least two nutritious meals a day, appropriate hygiene conditions such as functioning toilets, beds, mattress and bedding, sufficient natural and artificial light and ventilation in cells, and mosquito nets; (d) Provide medical care and prompt hospitalization for suspects and prisoners and allocate sufficient resources to the public health care system to cover the costs of hospitalization; (e) Set up an Earning Scheme for prisoners that wish to work; (f) Ensure that remand prisoners are separated from convicted prisoners, and female suspects are separated from male suspects and attended by female officers; (g) Ensure that prisoners have meaningful access to an independent and confidential system for lodging complaints about conditions of detention, including illtreatment, and ensure that thorough, impartial and independent investigations are conducted into any and all complaints; (h) Establish a permanent and independent prison monitoring system, ensuring unrestricted access to the Ombudsman and the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone, as well as other human rights organizations, to all places of detention, in particular for unannounced visits and private interviews with detainees. Ill-treatment in detention 27. The Committee is highly concerned at information indicating that cases of violence and deaths in custody have not been sufficiently investigated, including the death in custody of Lamin Kamara, allegedly as a consequence of torture. The Committee is also concerned at the alleged use of corporal punishment and solitary confinement for prisoners, as permitted by the Prison Ordinance Act of 1960 and the Prison Rules of 1961, as well as reduction in diet and the use of handcuffs and other means of restraint as a punishment (arts. 2, 11 and 16). 11