E/CN.4/1997/7/Add.3 page 27 (p) The judiciary should monitor closely and systematically that conditions of detention or imprisonment are consistent with the prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and with the right to be treated with humanity and respect for human dignity enshrined in the international human rights instruments; (q) Measures aimed at reducing the number of pre-trial detainees should be adopted urgently; (r) prisoners; Convicted prisoners should be separated from unconvicted (s) First-time offenders or suspected offenders should be kept separate from recidivists; those held in connection with the commission of serious offences, particularly of a violent nature, should be kept separate from other detainees or prisoners; (t) Children deprived of liberty (as a last resort), even if only for a few days or weeks, should be held exclusively in institutions aimed at protecting them and adapted, from all points of view, to their particular needs. They should be provided with medical, psychological and educational assistance; (u) Control of prisons should never be abandoned to its inmates. A trained corps of personnel needs to be available to ensure that prisons are run consistently with the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. With regard to personnel, rule 46, in particular, states the following: “1. The prison administration shall provide for the careful selection of every grade of the personnel, since it is on their integrity, humanity, professional capacity and personal suitability for the work that the proper administration of the institutions depends. “2. The prison administration shall constantly seek to awaken and maintain in the minds both of the personnel and of the public the conviction that this work is a social service of great importance, and to this end all appropriate means of informing the public should be used.” In this respect, paragraph 11 of resolution 1996/33 A entitled “Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights emphasizes the obligation of States parties under article 10 of the Convention against Torture to ensure education and training for personnel who may be involved in the custody, interrogation or treatment of any individual subjected to any form or arrest, detention or imprisonment, and calls upon the High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide, at the request of Governments, advisory services in this regard, as well as technical assistance in the development, production and distribution of appropriate teaching material for this purpose. Disorders in the prisons