Annual Report 2010 by the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture I.1. Prisons run by the Office of the Secretary General for Prisoners (SGIP) Upon arrival, new inmates are identified, their personal file is opened and they are informed of their rights and responsibilities In the first 24 hours they undergo a medical check­ up. They are allocated an accommodation block Remand inmates are not classified in prison. Following final sentencing, they are grouped into one of the three prison degrees. In December 2010, 1.76% of inmates were first degree, 72.20% second degree, 15.53% third degree, with the remainder pending classification. An ex-officio review is made of each inmate every 6 months 315. When new inmates enter a prison, they are identified and a personal file is opened, and they are also informed of the rights and responsibilities they have pursuant to the provisions o f articles 3 and 4 of the LOGP. Inmates may at any time request information on the status of their legal proceedings and imprisonment, as well as access the data recorded in their electronic file. Transsexuals may, upon arrival, inform the staff of their condition in order to receive information of the options and rights to which they are entitled, as regards their accommodation at the centre. 316. Over the course of the first 24 hours, inmates undergo a medical check-up in order to verify their state of health, and then they are interviewed by various specialist members of staff (social worker, educator, jurist, psychologist and teacher), with a view to understanding their social and family circumstances and allocating them their block (inmates’ accommodation unit) where they are to live, and other concurrent circumstances of their imprisonment and the security measures that are to be adopted as appropriate. 317. Remand inmates are not classified in prison, applying the orders given by the courts holding them in prison. Once sentence has actually been passed, all inmates are grouped into one of the three legally determined prison degrees, depending on their character, their individual prison record, their family, social and criminal record, the length of the sentence imposed, as well as other factors specified in prison legislation. All this informs a regime of security and control measures, which are gradually eased until attaining what is referred to as the third degree, which is the moment when the inmates are transferred either to an open section or to a halfway house (CIS), where the general idea is that they are required solely to spend the night from Monday to Thursday. In December 2010, of the 63,403 inmates in prisons run by the SGIP, 50,737 of them had been sentenced, of whom 1.76% were grouped into the first degree, 72.20% into the second degree, and 15.53% into the third degree; the remaining 10.50% were pending classification, in a living regime that in practice was akin to the second degree, which is also the most common initial grouping for those given custodial sentences. The prison classification is regularly reviewed based on a proposal by the Processing Board (Junta de Tratamiento) at the prison holding the inmate, with the final decision being made by the SGIP. An inmate may appeal against this decision before the parole court (JVP), as well as request a review of their prison degree. Every six months, the prison authorities are required to proceed to an ex-officio review of each inmate’s degree. Insofar as human resources are concerned, at the end of 2009, and according to official sources, the SGIP employed 24,432 public sector workers, including 482 in the non-departmental public body dealing with prison facilities and labour Trabajo y Prestaciones Penitenciarias. 136 THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN