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"A political community that makes democracy, freedom and human rights its core values cannot stop seeking to investigate the conditions in which those who have potentially committed crimes are detained and evaluating whether these meet the humane standards that they set up.
The rapporteurs listed various causes for concern: prison overcrowding, an increase in the prison population, a rise in the number of foreign nationals being held, large numbers of pre-trial detainees, detainees with mental and psychological disorders, and numerous case of death and suicide in prison. I share their concern and I hope the Member States will be able to respond with concrete measures that will genuinely minimise them. Despite these circumstances, it should be mentioned that EU Member States have the best legal and prison systems in the world. Dissatisfaction with what is there already and public expressions thereof is proof of this very fact, and of the transparency with which this issue is handled. The serious problems that affect us and the isolated abuses that are regretted and renounced should not stop us from saying that, regarding detention conditions, the EU is a model for most other countries to follow."@en1
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