3.6 The JICS' recommendation that resources be pooled at specific centres to which inmates could be transferred depending on their educational and development needs, is welcomed. This recommendation is consistent with the Committee's opinion that the DCS should consider identifying "centres of expertise" where resources for different workshops, agricultural activity, and educational programmes could be concentrated, particularly given the shortage of educators and artisans, and the under-utilisation of infrastructure and agricultural land. Both the JICS and the DCS should explore the feasibility of such an intervention and provide feedback within three months of the adoption of this report. 3.7 The Committee had in its report on the DCS and JICS performance in the 2008/09 financial year expressed its outrage at the high number of deaths in correctional centres, particularly those classified as unnatural. The DCS' reports on the 55 such deaths recorded in 2009 alone, included in the JICS' 2009/10 Annual Report, reflect that the situation has not improved at all. The Committee agrees that all custodial deaths, natural or unnatural, should be subject to a medico- legal examination as defined by the National Health Act (2003). This is vital, particularly given DCS officials' apparent history of assaults on inmates, as well as the suggestion that many 'natural' deaths may have been prevented had the necessary medical examinations taken place on admission, and medical care been given. Particularly appalling are the deaths that resulted after "continuous" assaults by officials, which in the Committee's view should be categorised as incidents of torture, rather than assault. Both the DCS and the JICS should provide quarterly reports on the DCS' interventions aimed at eradicating deaths, a breakdown of deaths recorded for that period, as well as of the DCS' compliance as far as the mandatory reports required by the JICS.