CAT/OP/BRA/2/Add.1 174. Between 2006 and 2011, the Human Rights Secretariat of the Office of the President organized workshops on forensic expertise, with an emphasis on offences of torture, in 11 cities, with a view to encouraging Brazilian official experts to incorporate procedures from the Istanbul Protocol in their practices.30 In total, around 800 people attended, including judges, promoters of justice, attorneys of the Republic, chiefs of police, public defenders, medical experts, crime experts, committees against torture and representatives from human rights bodies. 5. Prison system registers and indicators 175. The Subcommittee recommended that the Brazilian State set up a standard computerized information system in every state in order to record admissions and other information. 176. In 2007, Brazil adopted the Computerized Penitentiary Information System (INFOPEN), a standard computerized system for all prisons. The system is run by the National Penitentiary Department of the Ministry of Justice and contains information from every prison in the federal entities. It has two modules: a statistical module that states are required to use under penalty of loss of funding from the National Penitentiary Fund, and an optional administrative module. The statistical module provides statistical reports in graph form, cross-referenced with all the information in the system using a flexible table of indicators. It also provides a cross-search function, which allows users to choose between several filters reflecting the data entered by the states. The reports are published twice a year on the Ministry of Justice website.31 This system provides data on, inter alia, the numbers of prisoners and pretrial detainees and their sex, the number of prisons in each state, their capacity and number of officials, and prisoner profiles by nationality, level of education and offences. 177. The administrative module comprises the database of detailed individual records for the prison population and on prison administration procedures, as determined by each state. The states may use the INFOPEN platform or adopt their own. The INFOPEN database provided by the Federal Government includes information on prisoner biometrics, lists of lawyers, lists of officials, sentence monitoring, health care and occupational follow-up for prisoners. 178. In order to help the federal entities develop a complete and up-to-date database, as recommended, the installation of computer terminals in every prison was listed as goal 19 of the Prison System Master Plan so as to keep the data in the Penitentiary Information System always up-to-date. 179. Furthermore, Act No. 12714 of 14 September 2012 on the system for monitoring the enforcement of sentences, pretrial detention and security measures in custodial sentences should help to improve monitoring of custodial sentence enforcement. 30 31 GE.14-42059 Vitória – ES (2006), São Luiz – MA (2007), Natal – RN (2007 and 2010), Porto Velho – RO (2008), Maceió – AL (2008), Aracaju – SE (2008), Recife – PE (2009 and 2011), Salvador – BA (2011), Fortaleza – CE (2010), Teresina – PI (2009 and 2010) and Porto Alegre (2010). Available at: http://portal.mj.gov.br/main.asp?View=%7BD574E9CE-3C7D-437A-A5B622166AD2E896%7D&Team=&params=itemID=%7BC37B2AE9-4C68-4006-8B1624D28407509C%7D. 37