A/HRC/16/52/Add.3 to him. He indicated that he would like to have more free time after dinner. His mother had visited him two weeks prior. 214. F. W., aged 16. He stated that he did not get in trouble, and as a result had not been beaten at Hill Top. However, he noted that another boy had been beaten with a broomstick and dragged across the floor a few days before the visit. He had been at Hill Top since April 2009 for uncontrollable behaviour. He would be released when he turned 18. He complained that he did not receive enough food and that he was hungry every day. He also complained that the dormitories were sometimes locked-down for no apparent reason, and that the Superintendent beat the boys with a belt or a stick. He had been sick a few days before, and was taken to the doctor and given medication. He concluded that the judge sent them to Hill Top so that they could improve their behaviour and be able to go home; instead, they were beaten by the warders. 215. D.G., aged 17, was arrested in late August 2008 and spent 14 nights at Portland Police Station on a cold bunk. Instead of toilets, the detainees had to use buckets in the cell. Then he spent nine days at St. Andrew Remand Centre before he was transferred to Hill Top in September 2008. He expected to be released on 3 September 2010. In the “Middlesex Dorm”, there were 41 boys who were split into four or five gangs. The daily routine was fairly strict: at 6 a.m. the boys had to wake up, shower, and clean the cells; at 8.30 a.m. they received breakfast; at 9 a.m. they gathered for devotion; at 9.30 a.m. classes started (mathematics, English, social studies, science, etc.); from 12.30 to 2.30 p.m. the boys had lunch break; at 3 p.m. a muster check was conducted and then they could go for recreation outside (football, cricket, volley ball, table tennis, domino etc.); at 4.45 p.m. another muster check was conducted; at 5 p.m. they had supper; at 5.30 p.m. they had to go back to their dormitories (quiet time, meditation, TV, etc.); and bedtime was at 10 p.m. During the weekends, the boys had to stay in their dormitories. There were different types of punishments: taking away things like soap or new clothes; banning visits for up to two months (normally, they could receive visits every day); being put into the solitary punishment cells for up to three days; and confinement to the “sick boy area” where he had been last Monday from morning to evening. Sometimes, they were also beaten with hands and fists. According to him, Officer Brown was the most violent warder. The Superintendent was alright and Officers Small and Lawrence were very nice. 216. M.C., aged 16, had arrived at Hill Top in November 2008 and expected to leave the facility in November 2010. The Superintendent was nice, but there had been a warder who beat him with a belt on the palm of his hand. The warder had since resigned. 217. D.C., aged 16, had been at Freeport Police Station from May 2007 to September 2007. He noted that it was terrible, with six to eight people in the cell, sleeping on concrete. At Hill Top he liked that he learned a lot, and felt more protected than being outside in his community, where he would be dead by now. He had suffered greatly when both his parents recently passed away successively and he was not allowed to go to their funerals. He felt lonely and missed them a lot. He thought of them every night. 218. E., aged 16, had been at Top Hill since February 2009. Prior to that, he had spent three days at Hanover Police Station with two others in a cell. When they started to fight, the police used pepper spray which caused burns, but they were not beaten. Then he spent another three days at Stony Hill (St. Andrew Remand Centre) which he considered to be better than Hill Top. At Hill Top, the officers treated them like animals and sometimes they beat and kicked them. On 22 December 2009, Officer Basil had also beaten him. The Superintendent also practiced corporal punishment in his office in the form of six strokes on the buttocks with a leather belt. He complained in particular that during weekends they were not allowed to go out of the dormitories. His mother died in 2004, and his father lived in Hanover but visited him only rarely. Visits took place in the Common Room, but usually 59