06.03.2007 - Source: US Department of State

Juveniles often held with adults and subjected to sexual abuse by adult inmates ("Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2006") [ID 19249]

"Juveniles often were held with adults and in some cases subjected to sexual abuse by the adult inmates. In October 2005 an adult inmate raped a 16-year-old male in police detention in Juba. "

Document(s): Open document

10.2004 - Source: UK Home Office

Prison conditions for children ("Sudan Country Report - October 2004") [#26961],  [ID 12296]

"5.59 The United Nations' Special Rapporteur's (UN SR) Report of January 2003 stated that "Only two reformatories exist and children are very often detained with adults and allegedly subjected to inhumane treatment." USSD 2003 concurred: "Minors often were held with adults." SOAT's 2003 report on Women's Prisons stated that, in Kousti's mixed prison, "There is no separate section for minors and as they are not allowed according to law) [sic] to mix with the adult populations, so, they have to be imprisoned in solitary confinement."

5.60 SOAT's April 2004 Report on Reformatories in Sudan recorded the locations of the two reformatories that were in operation in Sudan as Jireif Reformatory in the Jireif area in Khartoum and Kober Reformatory in Kober, Khartoum North. SOAT's April 2004 report recorded that "There is no special health facility attached to the reformatory [in Jireif]." When discussing the conditions in Kober Reformatory the SOAT April 2004 report recorded that "There is no medical check and not even a medical unit….Juveniles in severe cases are taken to security hospital which is near the reformatory."

5.61 The SOAT report also stated that "It [Kober reformatory] lacks the help of National or International NGOs [unlike Jireif], the juveniles at Jireif reformatory feel too funk [sic] and afraid if the officers threat[en] them by transferring them to Kober reformatory." According to SOAT's 2004 report, common punishments in the Sudan October 2004 two reformatories included solitary confinement, lashings and being asked to perform tasks which, in Kober prison, could be cruel and inhuman in nature.

5.62 USSD 2003 added that "In order to care for their children, many women prisoners were forced to take their children with them into the prison, where children were unable to receive an education." However, SOAT's 2003 Report on Women's Prisons stated that, in Omdurman, "The children continue their education at Bayt al Maal Primary School (Omdurman district).""

Document(s): Report