A/HRC/16/52/Add.3 only for 15 minutes. His birthday was on 9 March and he wished that his father would visit him. 219. D.B., aged 17, had been detained at Hill Top since January 2007 and expected to be released in May 2010. When he came to Hill Top he could not read but he learned it in the meantime. Nevertheless, he had many wishes: better teaching and teaching materials, better mechanical training, a locker in the dorms for storing personal things, more food, better clothes, a toothpaste and a toothbrush. The Superintendent was a good person but Officer Ayle was beating the boys with a belt. 220. B.B., aged 17, had been detained in the facility for eight months. Before that, he spent one year and four months at the Horizon Remand Centre and six months at Hunts Bay Police Station. At Hill Top the juveniles were treated badly. Some of the warders beat them with a big stick, which was bigger than a baton, on the legs and chest. On 16 February 2010, he was in bed and was joking around with his friends. Five warders came into the cell and started beating him. They took him out of the cell. Officer Miro, who was the shift leader, kicked and punched him at the corner of the corridor. The warder butted him on the head, hit him in the eye with his elbow, and on the chest with his knee. Then he was taken to the reception office, where he was beaten with the branch of a willow tree measuring seven centimetres in diameter and one meter in length. Five officers beat him all over his body and in particular on his right leg. He was bleeding from his mouth. Later he was taken back to the cell and went to sleep after he had washed himself. This had not been the first time he was beaten. It happened often when detainees were beaten when they were making jokes. In addition, they were also put in a badly smelling punishment cell when they got into fights. The last time he had been in that cell was on 15 February for one night. Sometimes the juveniles were locked into the punishment cells alone, sometimes with one or two others. He was often put there and had to stay in for one or two nights. There was light in the room and a bucket instead of a toilet. He was never beaten on the buttocks and never had to kneel as a punishment but had to do push-ups or clean the floor or run for a certain time. The boys had to get up at 6:30 a.m., took a bath, had some free time and had to clean the cell. At 8:00 a.m. they had breakfast and at 9:00 a.m. devotion. They had classes such as mathematics or mechanics until 11:00 a.m. Then they could play football and had lunch at noon. Later they either took a nap or played inside the cells. In the afternoon they had classes and ate supper at 5:00 p.m. After that time they were locked down again. The lights in the cells were on all night. Sometimes the boys fought in the dormitory and the warders would normally separate them. Some of the warders were “gangsters”, because they did not give the boys any water or other things. Sometimes there was not enough food for all the inmates, partly because the kitchen workers, who were also inmates, stole it. He did not receive any visits and could not get phone calls. He sold his hygienic articles in order to get some clothes. In 2009, one boy tried to hang himself with his shirt on the bars. He was beaten for his suicide attempt. 221. R.G., aged 16, had been detained in the facility for two months. Before that, he had been detained at Freeport Police Station in Montego Bay. At Hill Top Correctional Centre he had not been treated badly or beaten because he did not cause any trouble. He had never been detained in the punishment cell. He had one more year to serve. His family did not come to visit him. Every day somebody was fighting in the dorm. He had found nails in the food, in a cake and in the rice, which were placed there by the warders, who often did evil things. Other detainees had been beaten with a belt. In Montego Bay he had spent five months in the police station, together with other boys. When the boys were making too much noise they were beaten in their cells with batons by the police officers. All of the boys were beaten almost every day by nearly all the officers on duty. They had to spend the entire day in the cell and could never go out. He had not been interrogated there. After Montego Bay, he was sent to St. Andrew for three days, where the conditions were better 60