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Prisons in Africa are far below acceptable
international standards
African prisons are far below acceptable
international standards and those who are imprisoned still live in poor
conditions, Commissioner Med S.K Kaggwa, the Special Rapportuer on Prisons and
Conditions of Detention in Africa said on Wednesday.
Kaggwa’s presentation on April 10 is part of the Activity Reports of
Special Mechanisms of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
(ACHPR) to which he is a member. The 53rd Ordinary Session of the
ACHPR is hosted by The Gambia from 9-23 April, 2013.
“Inmates are facing challenges such as
insufficient food allocations, inadequate access to health care and medical
services, and lack of hygiene, sanitation and water scarcity,” he said. “In
most prisons, men and women share facilities”.
Women prisoners at
risk
He stressed that “there is no strict separation
within the prison according to the risk, men and women, children and adults,
civilians and soldiers, suspected and already sentenced prisoners, are most of
the time mixed indiscriminately together in the majority of the African
prisons”.
This, he said, puts women prisoners at the risk
of rape or attack by male inmates, prison guards or staff, noting that it
violates women prisoners’ rights to safety and to privacy.
He also said that in most African prisons, there
are no special detention facilities or rehabilitation or reformatory facilities
and some children are held together with their detained mothers.
No special care
Commissioner Kaggwa further exposed that there is
no special care for the sick prisoners, those infected with tuberculosis (TB)
and sexually transmitted diseases, as well as those infected with HIV or those
with AIDS and prisoners with illness.
Most often, he said, prisoners with mental
illness are ignored by prison officials and those behaviors could pose a risk
to staff or other prisoners. He noted that there are prisoners chained day and
night or put in confinement or isolation without receiving any treatment for
their condition.
He viewed the numerous prisons challenges in Africa
as a product of lack of good governance, limited amount of funding to towards
prisons and other prison resources and African governments’ failure to
prioritize prisons’ rights.
He commended the NGOs and the Africa Commission
on Human and Peoples’ Rights for their tireless efforts to improving prison
conditions in Africa.
Fair and humane
manner
In terms of prison management, Mr Kaggwa said, African
governments should have prison systems that can be managed in a fair and humane
manner, national legislation, policies and practices must be guided by the
international standards developed to protect the human rights of prisoners.
“Prison authorities have a responsibility to
ensure that the supervision and treatment of prisoners is in line with the law
and with respect to human rights,” he said. “The period of imprisonment is used
to prepare individuals for life outside prison following release.”
Written by Modou S. Joof
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