I only meant to point out the disparity and the injustice of ignoring the vast majority of prisoners in poor countries.

My answers, are:

1 and 2. I think that, yes, to some extent the conditions for war criminals in custody should be made worse. I'm not saying we should plunge them into the prison conditions of African prisons, but they should be housed alongside regular criminals and remand prisoners in the Hague, for instance. Otherwise, their facility should be modeled after the level of living conditions in the facilities of prisons and remand homes in the Netherlands, because I do see that it may not be feasible to house them next to other criminals who have committed crimes like armed robbery, murder, etc.

3. In my opinion, yes, I do think that prison conditions in the developing world should be given far more importance than they are now. However, I would still say that more development aid should go towards the regular population; yet, we need far more attention to prison conditions and the failures of the justice system throughout Africa, Asia and to some parts of Latin America.

1. Should the international community strive to make conditions worse for those in custody or should it work on improving prison (and, indeed, overall living) conditions in developing countries?

2. If we answer that it's the former, what is the level of privation at which we would feel satisfied? Is there one?

3. If we answer that it's the latter, won't we be hard-pressed to argue that prison conditions should be the first thing that we tackle in countries like Sierra Leone or the DRC, where living conditions are generally far below the standards we would accept for ourselves (and that we hope others will also be able, some day, to achieve)?