Recommendation (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) Steps taken in previous years Situation during visit (to be found in A/HRC/7/3/Add.2, Information received in the reporting (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 and A/HRC/16/52/Add.2) period based on separation of prisoners; Qafqafa, Swaqa and Muwaqqar prisons convicted persons from persons seem to be intended exclusively for convicted awaiting trial. prisoners. - Convicts are further segregated according to age, health, crime, and general behaviour. Under article 3(d) of the 2007 Law on the Correction and Rehabilitation Centres, the classification is to be made by a psychiatrist, a general doctor and a social worker. Non-governmental sources: Pre-trial and convicted detainees are separated. A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 159 (s) The Criminal Procedure Code be amended to ensure that the automatic recourse to pre-trial 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. (t) Due to extremely harsh prison Detainees are routinely beaten The Government closed Al-Jafr Prison in conditions and routine practice of and subjected to corporal December 2006. torture, the Al-Jafr Correction and punishment amounting to Government: Al-Jafr Prison was closed down by Rehabilitation Centre be closed torture. The isolation and order of His Majesty the King on 17 December without delay. harshness of the desert 2006, and was converted into a vocational training environment compounds the school. In addition, new reform and rehabilitation already severe conditions of the centres with a capacity to accommodate more than prisoners. 1000 inmates each are being constructed, one in Muwaqqar that was fitted out and recently began to admit prisoners, and another in Mafraq which is still under construction. The aim is to resolve once and for all the overcrowding problem in some centres and to leave scope for classifying prisoners