A/HRC/7/3/Add.2 page 62 274. Recommendation (q) stated: Non-violent offenders be removed from confinement in pretrial detention facilities, subject to non-custodial measures (i.e. guarantees to appear for trial, at any other stage of the judicial proceeding and, should occasion arise, for execution of the judgement); 275. According to non-governmental sources, there is discussion in the Ministry of Interior and the Royal Police Academy/Prison Reform Project of such measures within the framework of a larger project of prison reform in Jordan that would introduce prison classifications, from super-maximum security to open prisons, but no legislative steps have been taken. A committee has also been established within the Ministry of Interior to look into the possibility of alternative sentencing measures, such as community service, and release on parole through a special regime supervised by a judge. 276. In the context of prison reforms, the boldest recommendation is to move the corrections department from the Ministry of Interior to the Ministry of Justice, possibly enhancing independent oversight and prosecutions for transgressions. 277. An Office for the Reform of Prisons has been established, and given a mandate to devise strategies and plans to modernize mechanisms to accomplish the goal of combating torture. To this end, the services of the Kerik Group, a company that specializes in prison management services run by Bernard Kerik, former police chief of New York City, has been engaged to advise the prison reform project. A new Reform and Rehabilitation Centre was built in Al-Muqar with a maximum capacity of 10,009 inmates to address the problem of overcrowding. Efforts are underway to establish a similar centre with a similar capacity in Al-Mafraq, and Juweidah Prison will be closed after Al‘Umlumu Prison is opened; these are expected to become operational in 2008. 278. The GID has reportedly taken several measures to improve the condition of those held in GID detention, such as increasing the length of time allowed in the courtyard; length of visits; and increasing the number and variety of books available to detainees. 279. Inmates working in prisons have been included in social security programmes. 280. Recommendation (r) stated: Pretrial and convicted prisoners be strictly separated; 281. According to non-governmental sources, this has not been done, and it is unlikely that the government will achieve this goal even with the opening of two new prisons in Jordan because of continuing constraints on space. 282. Recommendation (s) stated:The Criminal Procedure Code be amended to ensure that the automatic recourse to pretrial detention, which is the current de facto general practice, be authorized by a judge strictly only as a measure of last resort, and the use of non-custodial measures, such as bail and recognizance, are increased for non-violent, minor or less serious offences;