The Prevention of Torture Through a National Mechanism
and control), communications with the outside world, access to occupational
tasks and training and access to culture.
• Examination
of the objects with which persons deprived of their liberty are
provided, such as clothing, mattresses, sheets, blankets, personal toiletries kits,
etc. to assess their suitability, sufficiency and condition.
• Determination of measures adopted to facilitate respect for religious freedom
and worship.
C) Security
• Analysis of interior surveillance systems and any protocols in place concerning
the making, storing, handling, custody of and access to recordings.
• Examination of firefighting systems and systems covering other situations of
risk, accessibility, emergency and evacuation protocols and the training on
these matters provided to staff at the establishment and, as the case may be, to
– Security: protocols for
surveillance, emergencies,
evacuation and
communication and
suitability of
infrastructures and
materials
the persons deprived of their liberty.
• Checks
to ensure that there are systems in place for communication with
custodial officers.
on the suitability of the security equipment and infrastructures
• Checks
available.
D) Sanitation and social conditions
• Inspection of sanitation facilities and determination of the associated human
and material resources.
• Determination of ordinary intervention protocols and the modus operandi in
case of emergencies or referrals to allocated centres.
– Sanitation and social
conditions: human and
material resources,
intervention protocols,
pharmaceutical care,
health education
• Checks
on the availability of pharmaceuticals and the protocols in place for
prescribing and dispensing them.
• Examination of provisions for the vaccination of staff and persons deprived of
their liberty, and health education programmes.
E) Living conditions
• Examination of timetables and activities programmed at the centre.
• Examination of disciplinary regimes and the rights and assurances associated
with them.
of provisions for communication face-to-face and by technical means.
• Analysis
– Living conditions:
timetables and
programmes of activities,
disciplinary regimes,
personal
communication
– Requirements of law:
F) Compliance with the requirements of law
compliance and extent of
• Examination
of official record books as established for each type of place of
regime and claims and
deprivation of liberty.
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actual application, internal
complaints procedures
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