A/68/44 handed down by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Supreme Court of Mexico, to preclude the possibility that military courts could have jurisdiction over cases involving human rights violations and offences against civilians in which military personnel are involved. Conditions of detention (19) While taking note of the information provided by the State party on the effort to reform the prison system and the recent activation of a fund to provide the financing needed to improve prison facilities at the state level, the Committee remains concerned by reports of overcrowding, violence between inmates and inmate self-rule in Mexican prisons and of extortion of inmates’ family members. The Committee regrets the fact that it does not have accurate data on the size of the prison population in the various places of detention or upto-date information on action taken in follow-up to the recommendations of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture or to those made by the National Human Rights Commission in its capacity as the national mechanism for the prevention of torture. It also regrets that data is lacking on complaints lodged by inmates or their families and on the outcome of the corresponding investigations (arts. 11, 12, 13 and 16). The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Step up its efforts to alleviate overcrowding in prisons and other places of detention by, in particular, making use of non-custodial penalties as provided for in the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures (the Tokyo Rules); (b) Continue to improve the infrastructure of prisons and other places of detention, including juvenile treatment centres, and ensure that conditions of detention in the State party are in accordance with the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules); (c) Develop strategies for reducing violence among inmates and take the necessary steps to put a stop to inmate self-rule in prisons and to the extortion of inmates’ family members. The Committee requests the State party to forward to it information on the results of the application of the Prison Administration Strategy for 2008–2012; (d) Take the necessary steps to bolster the work being done by the National Human Rights Commission as the national mechanism for the prevention of torture by ensuring that its recommendations and those made by the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture are given full effect. Criminal juvenile justice system (20) The Committee is concerned that the Federal Justice for Adolescents Act is still awaiting passage, since this means that a legal and institutional gap continues to exist in the State party. The Committee regrets the lack of precise statistics on the number of minors residing in treatment centres and on those centres’ occupation rates. It also regrets that information is lacking on the number of minors arrested in the course of federal operations to combat organized crime and the status of those who have committed federal offences (art. 11). The Committee urges the State party to: (a) GE.13-46043 Approve the Federal Justice for Adolescents Act; 29