Report on the Assessment of the Compliance of the Correction and Rehabilitation
Centers in Palestine with International Prison Standards
Annex 3
Definition of the scope of the assessment tool standards 4
Standards
Definition of the scope of standards
Section Two: General CRC Policies
1. Management of the CRC: Please rate from 1 to 5, where 1 represents total
compliance with the standard and 5 represents non-compliance.
1. The CRC has a documented and clear
There is a policy = 1
policy for appointing its employees
No policy = 5
(please review).
2. CRC director resides in or near the
CRC director resides in or near the CRC
CRC.
=1
CRC director resides at the CRC at least 4
days a week = 3
CRC director does not reside in or near
the CRC = 5
3. CRC administration issues directives
CRC management issues directives = 1
to its workers on respecting the rights of
CRC management does not issue direcinmates periodically.
tives = 5
4. There is a clear policy in the CRC
There is a clear policy = 1
structure to separate the investigation
No clear policy = 3
tasks from the arresting party (please
No policy = 5
review).
5. Number of staff is proportionate to the The number of staff is proportionate to
number of inmates.4
the number of inmates (staff’s proportion
is 50% of inmates’ number) = 1
The number of staff is fairly proportionate to the number of inmates (staff’s
proportion ranges from less than 50% to
over 40% of inmates’ number) = 3
The number of staff is not proportionate
to the number of inmates (staff’s proportion is less than 40% of inmates’ number)
=5
4
The proportionality of the ratio of CRC staff to inmates depends on several factors, including the extent
of security provisions in the CRC, in addition to the use of modern technological means for ensuring the
security and protection of the CRC and its inmates.
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