Report on the Assessment of the Compliance of the Correction and Rehabilitation
Centers in Palestine with International Prison Standards
of the assessment. However, the CRC guarantees, to a reasonable extent, the cleaning of sheets and bed furnishings 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, despite the fact that there is no policy
for that.
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Detention conditions: The Jenin 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 on their ability to coexist due to the overcrowding the CRC is suffering from. The
CRC’s administration 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
CRC staff 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 Jenin CRC, sentenced inmates are not separated
from detainees, however, those imprisoned for civil reasons, including
debts, are separated from those imprisoned for criminal offenses.
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Visitors: The Jenin CRC complies in an excellent manner with the
international standards regarding procedures for visits to inmates by
their families and friends on a regular basis that is agreed upon in advance.
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Infrastructure of inmates’ rooms and accommodation facilities:
The Jenin CRC complies weakly with the international standards regarding the infrastructure and inmates’ accommodation facilities due
to the conditions of the building and its overcrowding with an occupancy rate of 129%. The rooms are inadequate for the accommodation
of inmates in terms of the minimum space per each inmate, and there is
no single bed for each inmate according to the international standards.
The rooms are inadequate for the accommodation of inmates with dis-
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