Urges Member States that have not yet done so, to the extent needed: (a) to take specific action and to establish time-bound targets to address the serious problems confronting many Member States as a result of prison overcrowding; (b) to promote measures to reduce the number of prisoners on remand and awaiting trial; (c) to make increased use of alternatives to imprisonment; recommends to Member States that they consider: (a) conducting research on new approaches to penal and justice reform; (b) possible use of new modes of accessible justice for minor offences; invites international and regional financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to incorporate in their technical assistance programmes measures to promote examination of these issues; invites the 10th UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, to be held in Vienna from 10-17 Apr. 2000, to consider these issues.

Adopted without vote, 43rd plenary meeting

Arusha Declaration on Good Prison Practice (1999)

"Annex : Arusha Declaration on Good Prison Practice": p. 53
In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1999, New York, 20 Jan. and 2-5 Feb. 1999; resumed organizational session for 1999, New York, 25 March, 6 and 7 May and 23 June 1999; substantive session of 1999, Geneva, 5-30 July 1999; resumed substantive session of 1999, New York, 16 Sept., 26 Oct., 15 Nov. and 16 Dec. 1999 - E/1999/99 - p. 52-53 - (ESCOR, 1999, Suppl. no. 1).