CAT/OP/MEX/1/Add.2
Period
Federal facility
Location
Psychosocial rehabilitation centre
2008
2011
Total
Ciudad Ayala, Morelos
97
41
138
Islas Marías
139
86
225
794
425
1 219
Islas Marías complex
Training participants
148. A further aim of these courses on human rights and prohibition of torture and other
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment is to familiarize administrative, legal
and technical personnel, guards and custody officers at every federal remand and social
rehabilitation centre with the regulatory framework set out in the Body of Principles for the
Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment and the Code of
Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials with a view to the prevention of human rights
violations, including the prohibition of torture, in the performance of their duties. These
courses were organized as follows:
Period
Federal facility
Location
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Total
Altiplano social rehabilitation Almoloya de Juárez,
centre (No. 1)
Mexico state
464
781
912
1 032
1 298
4 487
Western social rehabilitation
centre (No. 2)
Puente Grande,
Jalisco
553
769
1 198
1 213
1 436
5 169
North-eastern social
rehabilitation centre (No. 3)
Matamoros,
Tamaulipas
659
762
1 391
1 113
1 351
5 276
647
1 162
1 594
1 221
1 413
3 222
465
772
917
1 382
3 536
2006
North-western social
rehabilitation centre (No. 4)
Tepic, Nayarit
Eastern social rehabilitation
centre (No. 5)
Villa Aldama,
Veracruz
South-eastern social
rehabilitation centre (No. 6)
Huimanguillo,
Tabasco
Began operating in 2011
370
370
North-north-western social
rehabilitation centre (No. 7)
Durango, Durango
Began operating in 2011
402
402
North-western social
rehabilitation centre (No. 8)
Guasave, Sinaloa
Began operating in 2011
135
135
Psychosocial rehabilitation
centre
Ciudad Ayala,
Morelos
353
474
693
802
1 412
3 734
Islas Marías complex
Islas Marías
113
296
282
329
632
1 652
Began operating
in 2008
Training participants
27 983
149. One of the workshop courses undertaken by the Ministry of Public Security was on
the prevention of human rights violations in the prison service, its purpose being to develop
awareness among federal prison system trainees and provide them with theoretical and
methodological tools so that from the time of their initial training they would gain an
understanding of the mechanisms for preventing human rights violations, particularly with
respect to the prohibition of torture, and a full knowledge of human rights protection and
advocacy organizations at the national and international levels.
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