E/CN.4/2003/24 page 42 motivated the only indication that this might be the case is a production order served at HM Prison Altcourse in November 1999 where it recorded that Robert Stewart was a suspect in an allegation of racially motivated malicious communication and harassment. There was no mention of any racial motivation on the subsequent court warrants; • No other evidence that Robert Stewart exhibited racist behaviour towards prisoners or staff during his time at Feltham was found. He shared a double cell with Zahid Mubarek from 8 February onwards with no apparent problems until the tragic event of 21 March. During this time, Zahid made no complaints against his cellmate nor did he request to move cells. Present status of any uncompleted investigation 81. The Director-General of the Prison Service, Martin Narey, also asked the Commission for Racial Equality in November 2000 to consider the circumstances leading to this death as part of its wider-ranging investigation into racism in the Prison Service. This investigation is now nearing completion. Compensation 82. Compensation of £20,000 was offered to the family of Zahid Mubarek in September 2001. They have not yet responded formally to this offer. Any other information/observations 83. The investigation highlighted a number of areas at the prison where improvements were necessary. In all, it made 26 recommendations addressing areas such as screening on reception, and the availability and scrutiny of medical records; protection from harassment procedures; policy and procedures for reading and stopping mail; the availability of security information files from previous establishments; security, reception and Duty Governor training; and the searching strategy. Of these 26 recommendations, all but one have been implemented in full. The outstanding recommendation concerned the provision of a single “stopped letter” register to each wing. This was felt to be unworkable and a single register had been provided for the entire establishment. 84. The part of the investigation on racist behaviour led to the conclusion that Feltham was institutionally racist. This conclusion was based on the fact that there was clear evidence of a lack of understanding of racism and race relations amongst staff as well as including the suggestion that a minority of staff did behave in a racist manner to their colleagues and to prisoners. 85. It should be noted that, following her inspection of Feltham in January 2002, the outcome of which was published on 15 October 2002, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons was very positive about improvements at Feltham in general, and about race relations in particular. She