Report on the Assessment of the Compliance of the Correction and Rehabilitation
Centers in Palestine with International Prison Standards
to the conditions of the building. Not every inmate receives his own
bed and bed furnishings as there were 70 inmates without beds at the
time of the assessment. However, the CRC guarantees, to a reasonable extent, the cleaning of sheets and beddings according to a specific
schedule. The CRC does not have a uniform for inmates. Inmates with
disabilities are granted a reasonable amount of facilities commensurate
with the nature of the disability, but there is no policy for that.
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Detention conditions: The Nablus CRC provides good detention conditions for inmates in terms of meals, hours of exposure to the sun,
movement and the availability of sufficient clean water for the needs
of inmates. However, inmates are not distributed on the basis of their
ability to coexist due to the overcrowding the CRC is suffering from.
The CRC’s management respects the freedom to practice religious rituals and allows inmates to communicate with their families and friends
regularly. Inmates receive news regularly through daily newspapers
and television stations. In addition, cleaning materials are provided for
the sanitary facilities which are cleaned by the inmates themselves.
The staff of the CRC monitors inmates (only) in terms of washing and
changing their clothes and underwear to ensure their physical cleanliness but they don’t oblige them to do so. Work is not compulsory
in the center, but it is a privilege granted to some categories of inmates based on compliance with the required rules of behavior and
good conduct inside the center. In the Nablus CRC, sentenced inmates
are not separated from detainees, however, those imprisoned for civil
reasons, including debts, are partially separated from those imprisoned
for criminal offenses according to the conditions of the building.
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Visitors: The Nablus CRC complies in an excellent manner with the
international standards regarding procedures for visits to inmates by
their families and friends regularly on a pre-agreed basis.
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Infrastructure of inmates’ rooms accommodation and facilities:
The Nablus CRC is very poorly compliant with international standards
in terms of infrastructure and facilities for inmates. The building has
a poor physical condition and is overcrowded. The occupancy rate is
158.7%, which is one of the highest rates in Palestinian CRCs. The
living space in the prison is considered inadequate (the suitable living
area according to international standards is 1,080 square meters, which
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