Brussels, 13/12/2012 (Agence Europe) - In a report published on Thursday 13 December, a Council of Europe press release indicated that its Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) had called on the Belgian authorities to rethink their prisons policy and “take urgent and decisive measures” to tackle persistent problems such as overcrowding and the failure to properly manage recurring strikes by prison staff. This report follows an ad-hoc visit to Belgium by the CPT in April 2012. The...