ACHPR/37/OS/11/437 • 26 Feeding of prisoners is the responsibility of the state, and government should fulfil this obligation. Civil Society and NGOs are encouraged to contribute towards the discharge of this responsibility; Specific Recommendations to the Prison Administration • The Prison Administration should have a lawyer or qualified jurist in permanent employment; • To combat ill treatment of all kinds inflicted on prisoners, but also to improve the quality of relations between prisoners and staff, training of prison personnel should be considerably strengthened and a study should be undertaken in advance to identify the exact needs and priorities for training; • Communications between personnel and prisoners should be improved to encourage the development of trust, which is necessary for mutual respect to exist; • Minors should be kept strictly separated from adults; • Women should be kept separated from men; • Impediments should not be put in the way of visitors who, in compliance with prison regulations, want to visit prisoners; • Prisoners should not be threatened or punished for what they say to officials such as the Special Rapporteur after their visits to prisons; Important Recommendations to the Police and the Gendarmerie • Conditions of detention in police stations and the gendarmerie should be improved without delay; • All persons detained by the police and gendarmerie should be allowed to receive visits from their families and friends as well as food from outside; • Staff should receive extra training and clear instructions so that they understand that ill treatment will under no circumstances be accepted as a means of controlling prisoners, and that according to the law they will be punished if they resort to such treatment; • A general re-examination of the conditions of detention in the national police establishments and gendarmerie should be made with the objective of establishing detailed and up-to-date standards for these places of detention.