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receives or is found in possession of any medicine, the medical officer should decide what use should
be made of it.
36. To the extent possible juveniles should have the right to use their own clothing. Detention facilities
should ensure that each juvenile has personal clothing suitable for the climate and adequate to ensure
good health, and which should in no manner be degrading or humiliating. Juveniles removed from or
leaving a facility for any purpose should be allowed to wear their own clothing.
37. Every detention facility shall ensure that every juvenile receives food that is suitably prepared and
presented at normal meal times and of a quality and quantity to satisfy the standards of dietetics,
hygiene and health and, as far as possible, religious and cultural requirements. Clean drinking water
should be available to every juvenile at any time.
E. Education, vocational training and work
38. Every juvenile of compulsory school age has the right to education suited to his or her needs and
abilities and designed to prepare him or her for return to society. Such education should be provided
outside the detention facility in community schools wherever possible and, in any case, by qualified
teachers through programmes integrated with the education system of the country so that, after
release, juveniles may continue their education without difficulty. Special attention should be given by
the administration of the detention facilities to the education of juveniles of foreign origin or with
particular cultural or ethnic needs. Juveniles who are illiterate or have cognitive or learning difficulties
should have the right to special education.
39. Juveniles above compulsory school age who wish to continue their education should be permitted
and encouraged to do so, and every effort should be made to provide them with access to appropriate
educational programmes.
40. Diplomas or educational certificates awarded to juveniles while in detention should not indicate in
any way that the juvenile has been institutionalized.
41. Every detention facility should provide access to a library that is adequately stocked with both
instructional and recreational books and periodicals suitable for the juveniles, who should be
encouraged and enabled to make full use of it.
42. Every juvenile should have the right to receive vocational training in occupations likely to prepare
him or her for future employment.
43. With due regard to proper vocational selection and to the requirements of institutional
administration, juveniles should be able to choose the type of work they wish to perform.
44. All protective national and international standards applicable to child labour and young workers
should apply to juveniles deprived of their liberty.
45. Wherever possible, juveniles should be provided with the opportunity to perform remunerated
labour, if possible within the local community, as a complement to the vocational training provided in
order to enhance the possibility of finding suitable employment when they return to their communities.
The type of work should be such as to provide appropriate training that will be of benefit to the
juveniles following release. The organization and methods of work offered in detention facilities should
resemble as closely as possible those of similar work in the community, so as to prepare juveniles for
the conditions of normal occupational life.
46. Every juvenile who performs work should have the right to an equitable remuneration. The
interests of the juveniles and of their vocational training should not be subordinated to the purpose of
making a profit for the detention facility or a third party. Part of the earnings of a juvenile should
normally be set aside to constitute a savings fund to be handed over to the juvenile on release. The
juvenile should have the right to use the remainder of those earnings to purchase articles for his or her
own use or to indemnify the victim injured by his or her offence or to send it to his or her family or
other persons outside the detention facility.