undertake prison work and those who have been sent via special court orders 110, in particular due to special security considerations,111 or as a result of SP discussions112. Except in WCP (male section), open prisons and work camps, where there are no remandees, both remandees and convicted prisoners were found in all the other prisons visited. Generally, measures had been taken in these prisons to segregate the sleeping spaces of convicted and remandees by allocating separate wards for the two categories. However, every prison contained at least one special ward where both convicted and remandees are housed together, for example, the PH, PTA ward, YO ward and special prisoners ward, whilst certain prisons also contained normal wards where both remandees and convicted prisoners would be found. However, this limited measure taken by separating convicted and remandee sleeping facilities is rendered ineffective because in most prisons, the common spaces are accessible to both the convicted and remand prisoners, and hence they will inevitably come into contact with each other. This is the case in all prisons visited except in ACP, where most of the remandees are held inside their rather large ward sections. However, even at ACP the two categories come into contact with each other in other places, such as the PH. Convicted female prisoners and female remandees were separated in some prisons (ex. KRP, ACP, GRP, ARP). 2.4. Adults and young offenders SMR 11(d) states that young prisoners shall be kept separate from adults, while SMR 112 (2) stipulates the segregation of young untried prisoners who, in principle, should be detained in separate institutions. In the national legislation, Section 178 (d) of the SRs states that prisoners under twenty-two years of age shall be kept, so far as the arrangements of the prison permit, separate from all other classes of prisoners, as does Section 420 of the DSO,113 which gives particular importance to segregation in respect of YOs in each prison where they are housed. Section 401(4) of the DSO states that YOs who are given a sentence of more than one month are to be transferred to and located in the YO section of WCP, which does not necessarily take place in practice at present because YOs are sent to youth correctional centres and nearly all 110 A court may issue a special order regarding a prisoner/remandee for security purposes. For example, known organized crime leaders are often issued court orders to be housed in a prison closest to the court in order to avoid attempts on the life of the prisoner or escape attempts during escorts. 111 Remandees/prisoners who have had attempts on their lives in prison or during escorts to courts/other prisons, are often housed at prisons where officers assigned for special security duty can be assigned. For example, the Commission came across one such condemned prisoner in BRP who had been housed there with a special General’s order for protection. 112 SP Discussions are roundtable discussions conducted at the DOP with all SPs, Commissioners and the CGP and other relevant parties in order to discuss issues and plans. In these discussions, SPs can raise issues related to inmates such as disciplinary issues or security issues and request other SPs to accept the prisoner and house him/her in their prison. The Commission came across many convicted prisoners who had been housed in remand prisons, due to such SP discussions. 113 DSO 1956, s 420. 75