26 UNITED NATIONS STANDARD MINIMUM RULES FOR THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS 2. External inspection teams shall be composed of qualified and experienced inspectors appointed by a competent authority and shall encompass healthcare professionals. Due regard shall be given to balanced gender representation. Rule 85 1. Every inspection shall be followed by a written report to be submitted to the competent authority. Due consideration shall be given to making the reports of external inspections publicly available, excluding any personal data on prisoners unless they have given their explicit consent. 2. The prison administration or other competent authorities, as appropriate, shall indicate, within a reasonable time, whether they will implement the recommendations resulting from the external inspection. II. RULES APPLICABLE TO SPECIAL CATEGORIES A. Prisoners under sentence Guiding principles Rule 86 The guiding principles hereafter are intended to show the spirit in which penal institutions should be administered and the purposes at which they should aim, in accordance with the declaration made under preliminary observation 1 of these rules. Rule 87 Before the completion of the sentence, it is desirable that the necessary steps be taken to ensure for the prisoner a gradual return to life in society. This aim may be achieved, depending on the case, by a pre-release regime organized in the same prison or in another appropriate institution, or by release on trial under some kind of supervision which must not be entrusted to the police but should be combined with effective social aid. Rule 88 1. The treatment of prisoners should emphasize not their exclusion from the community but their continuing part in it. Community agencies should therefore be enlisted wherever possible to assist the prison staff in the task of social rehabilitation of the prisoners.