A/HRC/43/49/Add.1 (d) Allocate adequate resources to prison health services and ensure that doctors and all medical services in detention centres are under the administration of the Ministry of Health and independent of the Ministry of Justice; (e) Urgently improve access to, and the quality of, health care to provide a minimum standard of medical care, and employ a sufficient number of qualified doctors, including for psychiatric and dental care, in addition to medical assistants and nurses; (f) Establish an independent body under the Ministry of Health to regulate and improve the quantity and quality of prison food, for example by establishing a farming programme in prisons to offset food costs and provide better variety and nutrition; (g) Use solitary confinement only as an absolute measure of last resort and adhere to the limitations (length of time, adequate space and regime, including one hour of outdoor exercise) in accordance with the Nelson Mandela Rules; (h) Seek donations from civil society to increase opportunities for education, recreation and training programmes; (i) Once adopted, implement the bill on prisoner rehabilitation and move away from a purely punitive penal system to a more modern approach that includes the rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates, in accordance with international human rights standards. 116. To address any overcrowding in prisons, the Government should: (a) Develop and implement, with the assistance of the Prosecutor’s Office, the Minister of Justice and the judiciary, a programme to reduce the levels of overcrowding; (b) Review the cases of non-violent and low-risk offenders with the aim of releasing them unconditionally or under reasonable conditions so that bail and effective monitoring becomes a standardized practice to reduce the number of remand prisoners; (c) Ensure that time spent in custody on remand is taken into account during sentencing; (d) Provide the judiciary with further training in case management, implement a fast-track system for less serious cases and ensure that all detainees are tried within a reasonable period of time; (e) sentences; Provide a swift appeal process for the review of convictions and (f) Divert some of the funds used for incarceration to support a project to identify low-risk offenders and divert or release them using alternative measures. 117. With regard to the death penalty, the Government should: (a) Abolish the death penalty; (b) Pending the abolition of the death penalty, maintain the official moratorium and commute all outstanding death sentences to term sentences, particularly in light of the conditions of detention, and ensure that these prisoners are allowed visits by lawyers and family members. 118. With regard to juveniles, the Government should: (a) Expedite the ratification of the optional protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child; (b) Ensure the separation of juveniles from adults by creating juvenile quarters in prisons, in compliance with international standards; (c) Provide additional training to the judiciary and the Prosecutor’s Office so that bail or other alternatives to detention (such as community service) are considered for juveniles in conflict with the law, and ensure that imprisonment, 18

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