Report on the Assessment of the Compliance of the Correction and Rehabilitation Centers in Palestine with International Prison Standards 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 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 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 CRC. In the Tulkarem CRC, sentenced inmates are not separated from detainees, and those imprisoned for civil reasons, including debts, are not separated from those imprisoned for criminal offenses due to the overcrowding the CRC is suffering from. • Visitors: The Tulkarem CRC complies in an excellent manner with the international standards regarding the procedures for visits to inmates by their families and friends regularly on a pre-agreed basis. • Infrastructure of inmates’ rooms and accommodation facilities: The Tulkarem CRC complies in 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 146.5%. 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 international standards. The rooms are inadequate for the accommodation of inmates with disabilities. The number of toilets and shower facilities is insufficient (in some rooms, the number of inmates reaches 17, with only one toilet with a shower facility in the same place for this number). Toilets are unsuitable for the use of persons with disabilities or special needs. Due to the nature of the building, the windows are not wide enough to let in natural light and allow for adequate ventilation of the building. The CRC suffers from the difficulty of maintaining its facilities due to the nature of the building, which constitutes inade- INDEPENDENT COMMISSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 57