The construction of six (6) such regional prisons (MAC) with a capacity of
500 each and the establishment of an annual infrastructural rehabilitation
programme for the remaining prisons;
34. It is also envisaged that the budgets for the next two years will take into
account the construction of the National Prisons Administration School and a
Medical and Social Service for the prisons.
35. In the meantime, the following achievements should be credited to the
Ministry of Justice:
The construction of a multi-purpose building at the MAC de Rebeuss
prison facility consisting of a library, a socio-educational service, a
concert hall and a computer room ;
The reinstallation of the electrical connections at the MAC facilities of
Rebeuss and Cap Manuel;
The installation of gas cookers in the prison facilities (MACs);
The construction of rooms for minors at the female MAC in Dakar.
c. Improving living conditions of detainees :
36. The medical-social centre of the prison’s administration has for some years
been administered by a physician, an officer of the Senegalese army. The sick
prisoner receives full medical attention right from consultation, through
treatment to prescription of drugs. Towards this end, every prison facility has an
infirmary and very serious ailments are treated at the Special Ward of Aristide
LeDantec hospital.
37. This year, one hundred CFAF (100) million was allocated to the medicalsocial service of the prison’s administration following a « personal commitment »
by the Minister of Justice who also raised the daily maintenance allowance of
the prisoner from CFAF 460 to 600 in 2013 and promised to raise it to CFAF 1000
in the 2014 budget.
38. Libraries, telephone booths, television sets, ventilators and air extractors were
installed at the Rebeuss MAC and at the Liberté 6 Prisons Camp and in some
prisons in the countryside.
d. The new social reintegration policy
39. It is characterized in particular by the creation of the function of a judge
responsible for the enforcement of sentences and his core tasks12 consist of:
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Determining for each convicted offender residing in the prison of his
jurisdiction the key modalities for the treatment of an offender’s file ;
Decree 2001-362 of 4 May 2001 on enforcement procedures and reform of criminal sanctions.
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