Places of Long-Term Deprivation of Liberty
of foreign nationals in prison was slightly higher than that corresponding to the
overall number of sentences.
314. In 2010, inspection visits have been made to 22 prisons, whose overall
prison population is approaching 20,000 inmates, which accounts for around
30% of the prison population under the responsibility of the General State
Administration. The prisons visited are a third of all the ordinary correctional
facilities; that is, those equipped to imprison inmates on a closed basis or
preventive inmates under the same regime.
Visits have been made to 22
Specifically, inspection visits have been made to 21 prisons run by the SGIP:
Albacete, Albocásser (Castellon), Alcázar de San Juan (Ciudad Real), AlicanteCumplimiento, Alicante II in Villena, Basauri (Bizkaia), Dueñas (Palencia), El
Dueso (Cantabria), Madrid I in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid II in Alcalá de Henares,
Madrid VII in Estremera, Martutene (Gipuzkoa), Monterroso (Lugo), Morón de
la Frontera (Seville), Nanclares de la Oca (Alava), Pereiro de Aguiar (Ourense),
Picassent-Cumplimiento (Valencia), Soria, Villabona (Asturias), and Villanubla
(Valladolid); as well as Madrid V in Soto del Real, as part of the European Council’s
programme of in situ training; and the military prison in Alcalá de Henares
(Madrid). All the above establishments accommodate both inmates serving
sentences and people in preventive custody awaiting trial.
They all accommodate
prisons. They accommodate
an approximate total of
20,000 inmates (30% of the
prison population under the
responsibility of the General
State Administration)
both inmates serving
sentences and people in
preventive custody
awaiting trial
Graphic 17. Geographical location of prisons visited in 2010
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