Prisons were overcrowded.

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Prisons remain overcrowded, with more than 7,000 detainees occupying space for a maximum capacity of 3,750 inmates.

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With a view to improving the situation in the country's overcrowded prisons, his Government had freed 500 common criminals.

With the large number of persons living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, outbreaks of cholera and other diseases were common.

It will pull out of overcrowded sectors at our partner countries' request.

Many of those centres were reported to be overcrowded and inadequately staffed.

He was kept in an overcrowded cell with 100 other inmates, had no bed to sleep on, and received inadequate food.

Convinced that conditions in overcrowded prisons may affect the human rights of prisoners,

123. Rwandan prisons and detention centres are all more or less equally overcrowded.

We cannot have many millions of people on regular food handouts in overcrowded camps.

The jails visited by the Special Rapporteur were overcrowded and had inadequate medical facilities.

(c) Habitability many of the studies reveal that indigenous peoples often live in overcrowded conditions.

It is essential that the judiciary exercise its responsibility for monitoring prison conditions with something like the zeal with which it is prepared to send people to overcrowded jails.

Kenyan prisons were 30 per cent overcrowded, but efforts were being made to decongest the prisons.

The region's penal institutions are poorly resourced, overcrowded and increasingly vulnerable to the spread of HIV AIDS.

They ranged from the anarchic (Sabaneta), through the grossly overcrowded (La Planta), to the exiguously restrictive (Cochecito).

In this programme the main target groups are members of the San Community, Ex soldiers, Returnees, Displaced persons, People with disabilities and people from overcrowded communal areas.

As a comparison, it has been reported that the internally displaced, often in overcrowded settlements and with fewer services provided, generally lived under worse conditions than refugees.

In practice, the detainees were allegedly held incommunicado in overcrowded and unsanitary cells, with inadequate food and washing facilities and without exercise or exposure to fresh air.

45. The cachots visited by the Special Rapporteur in the provinces of Kayanza and Karuzi were equally overcrowded.

45 percent of the 14 million people who live in Delhi live in unauthorized slums, which are chronically overcrowded.

Owing to their overcrowded and unhygienic conditions, the schools are unfit for the purpose for which they are intended.

Conditions in prisons and detention centres in the country were reportedly abusive. Prisons were said to be severely overcrowded and unsanitary, with contagious diseases such as tuberculosis and dysentery widespread.

Cities in the developing world are characterized by inadequately planned and overcrowded settlements without access to even basic urban services.

The makeshift camps are extremely overcrowded, and outbreaks of malaria, cholera, typhoid, respiratory infections and other diseases may therefore result.

29. MICIVIH tallied just over 3,500 inmates in Haiti s 19 overcrowded prisons in September, some 200 more than in April.

The Government also continued the Family Housing Programme, which it started in 1996 to ease overcrowded shelters and private houses.

As a result of their introduction, the Agency was unable to hire new teachers, and classes in its schools were overcrowded.

Prison conditions are harsh prisoners live in overcrowded and poorly ventilated cells which they generally leave for only two hours a day.

Little efforts were made by the occupying Power to improve the poor condition of 12 overcrowded schools in the occupied Golan's remaining villages.

In Southern Darfur, agencies continue to encounter obstacles to the relocation of some of the internally displaced persons in the overcrowded Kalma camp.

The situation of the refugees in the occupied Palestinian territory was dismal, characterized by high unemployment, extreme poverty, overcrowded shelters and inadequate infrastructure.

(11) The Committee is concerned about reports that undocumented aliens are detained in overcrowded facilities with poor living and sanitary conditions, are not informed of their rights, and lack any effective means of communication with their families and their lawyers (art.

It would like the Secretary General to compare this structure with those of the leading governments and other international Organizations which also tended to be overcrowded at the top, and submit a report on the subject.

1.45 Insufficient project funding for school construction and upgrading of camp infrastructure contributes to overcrowded schoolrooms, poor environmental health conditions and dilapidation of refugee shelters.

135. Usually the ships, many of them converted fishing vessels, that are used for illegally transporting migrants are not seaworthy, dangerously overcrowded and otherwise unsafe.

All the women were provided with beds and clean linen and the ward was clean and supplied with electricity and running water, in contrast to the male prisoners who slept on the concrete floors of their cells, which were dark and dank, dirty and overcrowded.

Potential homelessness may be interpreted to mean individuals living in overcrowded conditions (three or more persons in a room), in primitive housing units or in condemned buildings.

The Mission had to rent two additional buses at an extra cost of 109,000, since the available nine buses were heavily overcrowded and represented a safety hazard.

The humanitarian situation in Kalma camp also remains worrying, with conditions in the overcrowded camp deteriorating and camp management rendered increasingly difficult by the expansion of its size and the lack of trust between internally displaced persons and local authorities.

While recognizing the efforts undertaken by the State party to improve prison conditions, the Committee is concerned that most prisons, especially places of pre trial confinement, are overcrowded.

Furthermore, the poor quality of some education, resulting from irrelevant and obsolete curricula, overcrowded classrooms, untrained teachers and gender discrimination, cause high dropout and repetition rates especially among girls.

Overcrowded housing tends to accelerate the deterioration of dwellings and increases the risk of the transmission of diseases and the promulgation of domestic violence and other abuses and violations.