4.8 Deaths in incarceration 4.8.1 While the decline in the number of deaths in prison is welcomed, it was agreed that every death in prison should be regarded as undignified, and that those caused by the failure of Heads of Centres to provide adequate medical care, should be considered unnatural too, and that each death be thoroughly investigated. It was stated that amongst others lowering overcrowding, training of officials to adequately care for mentally-ill offenders, and identify threatening behaviour, and a more human legal framework governing medical parole would assist the DCS in further lowering the incidents of death in incarceration.