Places of Long-Term Deprivation of Liberty 350. Regarding religious freedom, it is common practice at all the prisons to Unrestricted access is grant unrestricted access to catholic priests, imams and ministers from other permitted to ministers religious faiths, and no complaints were received on this issue during the inspection visits. Most of the prisons have catholic chapels; at those prisons housing a large number of Islamic inmates, specific areas are assigned to enable from different religious faiths at all the prisons visited them to worship. 351. As regards inmate communications, visits are permitted by family members Visits by family members and friends, according to legally established conditions and, except in the cases of and friends are permitted legally imposed solitary confinement (art. 51. LOGP), through visiting booths or in rooms for holding intimate or family visits, for which there are the appropriate according to legally established conditions facilities. No complaints have been received on this matter, except for certain minor considerations regarding the age of some of the facilities and equipment (intercoms in the booths). During some of these inspection visits, however, some of the inmates complained The need has been about the searches and frisking performed on the relatives of prisoners accused or established to arrange convicted of terrorist crimes. From 2009 onwards, for reasons of security and on a general basis, all those visiting these prisoners — including minors — had to undergo, in addition to electronic screening and regardless of the results, searches briefing sessions for all those people wishing to hold intimate or family communications with physical touching. If a visitor refused, the visit was usually cancelled, which led to several incidents at various prisons, with the ensuing loss of family communications, as well as complaints made to this Office. However, dated 16 March 2010, instructions were issued that established specific limits regarding the prohibition of performing these searches on certain types of people (minors, the elderly or those with physical or psychological complaints or disabilities), establishing the need to arrange prior briefing sessions for all those people wishing to hold intimate or family communications. 352. Regarding inmate telephone communications, there are public phones in There are public phones in the residential blocks, although the privacy of the conversation cannot always be the residential blocks. The guaranteed through the installation of screens or other features. Furthermore, the use of the phones is supervised though a software application, which means that calls may be made solely to those numbers authorised beforehand by the authorities, and for the length and frequency stipulated by the regulations. The complaints refer to the short amount of time they are allowed to use the phone and the ban on mobile phones complaints the inmates make on this matter tend to refer to the short amount of time they are allowed to use the phone and the ban on mobile phones. 353. Regarding the inmates’ access to lawyers, these visits are held without any Lawyers’ visits are held kind of restriction, beyond the need to comply with each prison’s organisational without any kind of regulations regarding timetables. The sole requirement for authorising the visit is that the lawyer must provide proof of being the one appearing in the court proceedings against the inmate or that there is a justified reason for the visit. THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN restriction. The visits are confidential and cannot be interrupted or cancelled 147