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In poor countries the same is true, but on a different scale. This is due to insufficient economic resources and the state‘s inability or unwillingness to secure even minimum standards of prison conditions. Because of the low salaries of prison employees, corruption is endemic. As a prisoner in a poor country, you will have a high likelihood of suffering from infectious diseases, from the lack of hygiene, from inadequate medical and psychological assistance, from unhealthy diets, and - most importantly - from lack of respect by undertrained and often incompetent, but bossy guards and semi-professionals. There are not many published reports detailling the psison conditions in poor countries. As a matter of fact, the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture has visited the prisons of many poor countries, but ony few of them has agreed to the publication of the reports. Here is the summary of the SPT report for an African country, which is ranked 51st on Pasquali's list : | In poor countries the same is true, but on a different scale. This is due to insufficient economic resources and the state‘s inability or unwillingness to secure even minimum standards of prison conditions. Because of the low salaries of prison employees, corruption is endemic. As a prisoner in a poor country, you will have a high likelihood of suffering from infectious diseases, from the lack of hygiene, from inadequate medical and psychological assistance, from unhealthy diets, and - most importantly - from lack of respect by undertrained and often incompetent, but bossy guards and semi-professionals. There are not many published reports detailling the psison conditions in poor countries. As a matter of fact, the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture has visited the prisons of many poor countries, but ony few of them has agreed to the publication of the reports. Here is the summary of the SPT report for an African country, which is ranked 51st on Pasquali's list : | ||
15. Le SPT constate qu’en dépit de quelques mesures , la torture et les mauvais traitements demeurent répandus, favorisés principalement par un certain nombre de problèmes structurels et systémiques préoccupants, liés: | : 15. Le SPT constate qu’en dépit de quelques mesures , la torture et les mauvais traitements demeurent répandus, favorisés principalement par un certain nombre de problèmes structurels et systémiques préoccupants, liés: | ||
- Au faible respect des garanties édictées par la Constitution, les traités internationaux, les lois et règlements applicables au Gabon ; | - Au faible respect des garanties édictées par la Constitution, les traités internationaux, les lois et règlements applicables au Gabon ; | ||
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- A l’impassibilité et le consentement passif des pouvoirs publics vis-à-vis des abus entre codétenus induits par le système d’autogestion observé dans les trois établissements pénitentiaires visités ; | - A l’impassibilité et le consentement passif des pouvoirs publics vis-à-vis des abus entre codétenus induits par le système d’autogestion observé dans les trois établissements pénitentiaires visités ; | ||
- Aux mauvaises conditions matérielles et financières inhérentes aux lieux de privation de liberté qui entraînent généralement des mauvais traitements (et sont même, dans certains cas, constitutifs de torture). | - Aux mauvaises conditions matérielles et financières inhérentes aux lieux de privation de liberté qui entraînent généralement des mauvais traitements (et sont même, dans certains cas, constitutifs de torture). | ||
The situation is summed up by the SPT the the words that "the situation of of the imprisoned persons is "extrémement préoccupant" (SPT Rapport sur la visite au Gabon, 2014). | |||
Similar reports are available for some of the poorer countries in Latin America. Here is an example for a country ranked | |||
:55. Overcrowding remains a cause of concern. Tacumbú has capacity for approximately 1,200 inmates but houses far more than double that number. The Subcommittee is aware that the Government has made an effort to increase the number of beds in Tacumbú Prison, but would point out that those efforts will not be sufficient, since the prison structure is inadequate. ... The Subcommittee is of the view that Tacumbú National Prison should be closed as soon as possible and requests confirmation from the State party of the above-mentioned announcement, together with information on the timetable for its closure... | |||
57. According to statements made to the Subcommittee, torture and ill-treatment have continued to be commonplace and have been the usual means employed by prison guards to impose their authority... | |||
59. Although prison authorities report having removed corrupt prison staff from their posts, inmates and other credible sources have told the Subcommittee, in great detail, how corruption continues to affect each and every area of prison life. “Fees” continue to be charged for the different services (such as access to a doctor, to a given block or wing, etc.), with some modifications. “If anything has changed”, some inmates said, “it is that now you have to pay more for certain things.” Whereas, slightly over a year ago, inmates had to pay the guards 5,000 guaraníes in order to be allowed to carry a knife, the sum had risen to 50,000 guaraníes by September 2010. The Subcommittee has also been informed of other illegal fees now being charged by the guards (e.g., a fee of 2,000 guaraníes for allowing an inmate’s visitor to sit on a chair or to return a mobile phone to a visitor who was required to leave the phone at the prison entry hall)... | |||
61. The Subcommittee is extremely concerned by information received from credible sources which indicates that corruption is not confined to a given prison or operational level. On the contrary, it seems to exist in almost all of the country’s prisons and to be very well coordinated and organized. The Subcommittee has repeatedly been apprised of consistent allegations that certain political circles are profiting from this nationwide form of organized corruption. | |||
(SPT Report on the follow-up visit to the Republic of Paraguay from 13 to 15 September 2010). | |||
One example of a poor country's prison system is Romania. In this country, prison conditions have probably always been dire - with sporadic attempts at reform being drowned in political turmoil, regime changes, economic crises, and the syndrome of general neglect so characteristic of most societies' low priority for this unpopular appendix of the criminal justice administration. | One example of a poor country's prison system is Romania. In this country, prison conditions have probably always been dire - with sporadic attempts at reform being drowned in political turmoil, regime changes, economic crises, and the syndrome of general neglect so characteristic of most societies' low priority for this unpopular appendix of the criminal justice administration. | ||