We spend billions upon billions every year in enforcement and prison cells, and still drug use continues.
"A legacy of apartheid is that prison cells are still unfortunately a place where prisoners can be abused, " Erfani-Ghadimi said.
Dr Michael Maguire, NI Criminal Justice chief inspector, said the Prison Service had taken action to reduce the risk of suicide in prison cells.
Mr. Morsi spoke in an ornate palace that Mr. Mubarak inaugurated three decades ago, a world away from the Nile Delta farm where the new president grew up, or the prison cells where he had been confined by Mr. Mubarak for his role in the Brotherhood.
There are also an extra 400 people being held in police cells due to prison overcrowding.
Inspectors found that while the Prison Rules 1999 set out legally binding entitlements for remand prisoners, appearing to suggest remand and sentenced prisoners should not be required to share a cell under any circumstances, Prison Service policy gave discretion to governors and sharing mixed cells was "the norm".
Inspectors who visited the women's prison in May discovered many inmates still had to share cramped cells meant for one person.
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Inmates at a Devon prison are spending up to 20 hours a day in their cells because of a lack of activities, a reform charity says.
The earlier judge's report, which was only partly published in February and has now been released in full, found there were staff shortages at Ayalon Prison which meant a special unit that monitored just two secure cells was not operating.
It noted segregated prisoners were not continually supervised, the accommodation was among the poorest in the prison system and prisoners did not have enough time out of their cells.
He said that figures for 2010-11 showed that nearly a quarter of people in prison were being held in overcrowded accommodation, either doubling up in cells designed for one occupant or being held three to a cell in spaces designed for two people.
Noel "Razor" Smith, who was in prison for 33 years and is now a writer, said putting TVs into prisoners' cells actually helped reduce violence in prisons, because it gave inmates who could not read or write a way to occupy their time.
Mr Summers said the prison system would not be in a position to handle dispersal of the 279 inmates in 179 cells in the hall.
Magnus-Stinson found that a prison policy preventing Lindh and the other Muslims in his unit from praying together daily when not locked in their cells violated a 1993 law banning the government from curtailing religious speech without showing a compelling interest.
In a week which has seen serious disturbances at Lewes prison and an official report that some young prisoners in Northumberland are having to spend 22 hours a day in their cells, with virtually no access to vocational or skills training, it is timely stuff.
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