5.15 Awaiting-trial detainees (ATDs) contribute greatly to overcrowding. While stakeholders welcomed the remand detention legislation that is underway, they were concerned that developing and processing legislation is time consuming and costly, and that in the meantime pressures associated with the DCS' detention of unsentenced offenders will remain. There are more cost-effective and less time-consuming ways of addressing the challenge e.g. revising the policy on the space allocated for beds, and increasing the expenditure on programmes that kept offenders occupied during the day and thus out of the cells would address overcrowding and recidivism.