Recommendations of 30th June 201030 concerning the remand prison in Majicavo The remand prison in Majicavo (Mayotte) was visited by four inspectors from the Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté (CGLPL) on 28th and 29th May and 2nd and 3rd June, 2009. The findings from this visit were submitted in a report to the director of the institution on 11th September 2009. The director made known his observations in a letter dated 7th October 2009. On 13th  November 2009, the full report of the visit was sent for observations both to the Minister of Justice and the Minister for Health and Sports. The Minister of Justice submitted her remarks in a letter dated 24th December 2009. The Minister for Health and Sports submitted his comments in a letter dated 26th March 2010. In the wake of this procedure, and in accordance with the law n°20071545 of 30th  October 2007, the Contrôleur général has decided to make public the following recommendations: 1/ An increase in the capacity in the Majicavo remand prison is essential given its constant dramatic over-population - at the time of the inspectors’ visit there was a rate of occupation of 294% of the capacity in the adult section N°2, and 333% in the end of sentence wing. It is essential that any new construction be carried out bearing in mind local conditions and with early involvement of the prison staff and other appropriate personnel in the project to ensure the new establishment is best suited to the prison’s activities as well as taking account of the constraints. 2/ Transferring inmates, in particular those from the Union of the Comoros, to prisons in Réunion Island, which would necessarily result in severing family links, should not be considered as the systematic and only solution to an easing of the over-crowding in the remand prison in Majicavo. 30 Published in the Journal Officiel de la République française of 25th July 2010, text n°31. 59