in mental health institutions is organised purely in view of the clinical condition of the patient concerned. 1.4 The recommendations undocumented foreigners concerning facilities accommodating The CGLPL's general recommendations to do with detention facilities and centres for illegal immigrants bore on all aspects of the treatment of people placed in such institutions. The details and supervision thereof can be found in Appendix 4. These concern the application of security measures, order inside the centres, compliance with prisoners' rights to property, defence, privacy and relations with the outside world, the organisation of activities, medical treatment and the rights bearing on application of the deportation measure. The CGLPL's general recommendations give rise to exhaustive supervision on the part of the Ministry of the Interior which, overall, does not express any disagreements in principle, with the following exceptions. Concerning the maximum length of time in detention, for which the CGLPL recommends returning to thirty-two days, the Minister of the Interior simply recalls the fact that the Act of 7 March 2016 has retained a maximum length of time in detention of forty-five days. But the CGLPL believes that this length of time is excessive in view of the objective to deport people placed in administrative detention: indeed, in practice it is observed that if a person is not deported within their first two weeks in detention, this will turn out to be impossible in the vast majority of cases. There is therefore no justification for keeping someone in detention for forty-five days insofar as this timeframe is itself proof that the person will most likely not be deported. Concerning prisoners' access to their personal belongings, the Minister of the Interior believes that the security measures are at odds with the provision of any furniture that can be locked and which may conceal banned items. He also considers that the fragility of this furniture is incompatible with use by a large number of people merely passing through on short stays. The CGLPL cannot accept this argument and asks for a technical solution to be sought to enable the provision of sturdy furniture that can be inspected. Concerning mobile phones, the CGLPL asks that these not be banned, whereas the Minister of the Interior is of the opinion that mobile phones equipped with a camera should not be authorised. The CGLPL feels that prisoners should be able to keep their mobile phones, but be warned that taking photographs is prohibited. If this warning is not heeded, the device may, under these exceptional circumstances, be confiscated. In the CGLPL's view, current practice must be interpreted as a disproportionate precaution in light of the risk. Lastly, while the CGLPL recommends facilitating access to psychiatric care for prisoners via agreements between detention centres and mental health institutions or the presence of psychiatrists in centres, the Minister of the Interior does not think that the number of external movements of prisoners for psychiatric disorders justifies such precautions. The CGLPL does not believe this statement matches up to the observations it has made during its visits and asks that it be backed up by an epidemiological study. 54