DOC /OS(=CIII)/324c/II • Intimidation and discrimination should not be resorted to as a way of controlling prisoners and other measures should be used to keep discipline • Officers in charge should be given the opportunity to move to another station after a certain period of time; some have overstayed and become uncaring • Human rights sensitisation for staff and inmates (particularly ward leaders) should be intensified 3. Advances made towards increasing the budget of all institutions dealing with inmates and offenders should be increased and closely monitored to ensure that inmates are kept in good and healthy conditions. Assistance should be planned and according to the needs, not as an answer to crisis situations. It should include a budget for maintenance of prisons. 4. Rehabilitation programmes should be developed to ensure that inmates prepare themselves for release and for a constructive life in the future. Educational and literacy programmes adapted according to length of detention and vocational training should be offered as well. 5. Officers in charge should not restrict the freedom of prisoners too much as is the case in Mbale or Masindi for instance. Most of the time, prisoners are indoors; they should be given time to do outdoors exercises; 6. Corruption practices at the police should be investigated and eradicated. 7. Infrastructures are very poor. Tororo and Kasese local administration prisons should be closed as well as Mbale central government prison, as they are currently dangerous for inmates and staff. Staff quarters should be rehabilitated. 8. Hygiene and accommodation should be improved. Inmates should be provided with enough bedding, soap, detergent and cleaning material as needed. 9. The Legal assistance and representation at hearings should be improved. In particular, Uganda should investigate the possibility to develop paralegal systems to sensitise inmates on their rights and represent them to court. 10. Government should consider abolishing the death penalty . Death sentences passed should be commuted into long term sentences. Health 1) The budget for the prison and police health service departments to buy pharmaceutical products should be increased to improve supplies of these products for the prison and police medical departments. A better distribution strategy for these drugs should be set up, ensuring that those health centres furthest from the capital receive their monthly allowance of drugs locally, without being obliged to send to Kampala for it. Moreover, the Ministry of Gender, Work and Social Development should open up a budget line for the purchase of pharmaceutical products for the juvenile prison under its responsibility. 2) Existing medical facilities should be refurbished and expanded when it is not possible to build new ones, especially in the large prisons. In particular, consulting and treatment, observation and quarantine rooms for contagious diseases, and toilets should be built. 3) The supply of beds and mattresses as well as small items (bandages, stethoscopes, sphygmomanometers, sterilisation equipment for medical materials, etc.) for the medical departments should be improved. The model hospital of Murchison Bay should be supplied with the additional equipment it needs to render its surgical unit operational. Furthermore, the larger health centres in prisons and police stations, and 39