E/CN.4/2001/66/Add.2 page 17 45. Next to the infirmary, where only one detainee was being treated at the time of the visit of the Special Rapporteur (see annex), the Special Rapporteur saw four inmates having meetings with so-called technical assistants. The latter are in charge of educational, psychological and legal aid programmes. They indicated to the Special Rapporteur that they were responsible for 70 inmates each and were able to speak with each of them only once a week. The Special Rapporteur nevertheless notes that according to public prosecutors, it was the first time that such activities were carried out in Franco da Rocha. He also notes that during his visit a member of his delegation witnessed a discussion between a technical assistant and the chief of the education programme regarding the fact that the former had been threatened by a monitor. According to non-governmental organizations, minors are shifted from one social worker to another all the time and spend so little time with them that no real rehabilitation activities are carried out. Furthermore, it must be noted that after each revolt, a large number of detainees are transferred to other FEBEM institutions. 46. Each cell contained 12 cement beds. At night, detainees were provided with a mattress and blankets. Cells were well ventilated and quite clean. Each contained a separate section, with no door but with two showers, two toilets and three taps. A number of detainees complained about the quality of the food, which appeared to the Special Rapporteur to be poor. No problem of overcrowding was said to exist in Franco da Rocha. 47. As mentioned above, detainees claimed that revolts were usually provoked by beatings from the guards, a claim which was also said to be often heard by public prosecutors and technical assistants. The latter told the Special Rapporteur that monitores often explained that “it was a question of knowing who was in charge of the institution, themselves or the inmates”. The Director of Franco da Rocha recognized that there was a very tense atmosphere and that conflicts between monitores and inmates were frequent. He recognized that security was a difficult matter, but denied all allegations of beatings and of provocation by guards. With respect to the mid-August rebellion, it was reported that the video system in Franco da Rocha had recorded the incident and could well explain a number of pending issues. The Secretary in charge of FEBEM told the Special Rapporteur that the tapes were currently being studied by an internal investigation team. 48. The Special Rapporteur visited four different wings. In each of them, he received consistent testimonies of beatings and was able to see the marks left by these beatings (see annex). A detainee asked the Special Rapporteur to intervene on his behalf to obtain a transfer to any other institutions where, contrary to Franco da Rocha, detainees are beaten “only if we do something wrong”. Detainees told the Special Rapporteur the locations of the iron bars and wooden sticks used by guards to beat them. In particular, they were said to be hidden in small rooms overlooking the courtyard on the first floor of the main corridor leading to all the various wings. The Special Rapporteur was able to discover, hidden behind some mattresses and blankets, a large number of iron bars and wooden sticks consistent with those described by the alleged victims. Apparently surprised by the presence of such instruments, the Director of Franco da Rocha explained that they must have been left over from the last revolt and had been hidden by the inmates themselves. The Special Rapporteur nevertheless noted that only monitores had access to the rooms where the sticks had been discovered. This was confirmed by the Director, who then said he believed that the sticks had been hidden on purpose by some of