Series of Places of Detention Assessment Reports (02)
Jericho CRC
Item
CRC’s location
Total area
Living space
CRC capacity
Muqataa Area in Jericho Governorate
(within security quarter)
9,000 sq. meters
2,000 sq. meters
165 inmates
Number of inmates at
visit time: 163 inmates
Rates of ac98.8%
commodation
area occupancy
(inmate density)
Building’s nature Newly constructed. Specifically built as
a CRC.
Service units
Yards, playgrounds, and recreational
found at the CRC facilities, a gym, 3 external yards (for
detainees, convicts, women), a library,
classrooms, a computer room, a dental
clinic, a general medicine clinic, a medical laboratory, vocational training: mosaic workshop, laboratory, handicrafts,
electrical installations workshop (Single
and 3 phase), sewing workshop.
Inmate rights
Suitability of the
CRC for receiving people with
disabilities, including inmates,
visitors and staff.
Remarks
Surrounded by a high
fence and closed with
electronic gates
Consists of two floors
Opened for operation
in 2012
The CRC provides inmates with various
entertainment and educational services.
Inside the CRC there are informational
posters that display the inmate rights and
duties according to the texts of the law
The CRC is unsuitable for receiving people with disabilities, including inmates,
visitors and staff.
The assessment team visited the CRC on July 29, 2019. After discussing the assessment tool and monitoring the initial grades for each scope
in it, the records described in the assessment methodology were viewed.
Then, the assessment team made a field visit to all the CRC’s facilities to
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