Contents Contents.................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Glossary .................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Foreword .............................................................................................................................................................. 10 Chapter 1 .............................................................................................................................................................. 14 Places of deprivation of liberty in 2015 ............................................................................................................... 14 1. In psychiatric treatment, in the context of a great diversity in practices, the reforms of 2011 and 2013 on notifying patients of the measures of hospitalisation without consent, providing information to the patients and the legal check by the liberty and custody judge have not been implemented properly. .......... 14 2. In prison, the persistence and concentration of prison overcrowding coincides dangerously with an insufficient number of prison warders. ............................................................................................................. 21 3. The situation in detention centres for undocumented is not improving at all. ........................................ 30 4. The monitoring of the conditions of execution of forced returns is being conducted by the Contrôleur général of places of deprivation of liberty ........................................................................................................ 33 5. In juvenile detention centres, well-identified difficulties persist, but the Government appears to be willing to take care of them in a suitable manner. ........................................................................................... 34 6. The rights of people deprived of liberty for short periods are not sufficiently protected due to the scattered nature of the facilities in which they are placed, and due to the lack of adequate oversights that they are subjected to. ....................................................................................................................................... 36 Chapter 2 .............................................................................................................................................................. 40 The opinions and recommendations published in 2015 ..................................................................................... 40 1. 2. Two emergency recommendations .......................................................................................................... 40 Three opinions published in the Journal Officiel [Official Gazette] ........................................................... 44 Chapter 3 .............................................................................................................................................................. 51 Actions taken in 2015 in response to opinions, recommendations and cases taken up by the Contrôleur général .................................................................................................................................................................. 51 1. The consequences of the Opinion dated 10 January 2011 pertaining to the use of telephones by persons deprived of liberty. ............................................................................................................................................ 51 2. The consequences of the Opinion dated 15 February 2011 pertaining to certain terms of hospitalisation by court order and to the recommendations related to mental health and the rights of patients formulated in the 2013 annual report. .................................................................................................................................... 53 3. The consequences of the Recommendations dated 15 February 2011 pertaining to the psychiatric infirmary of the police headquarters. ............................................................................................................... 55 4. The consequences of the Opinion dated 20 June 2011 relating to access to computers by detainees. .. 56 5. The consequences of the visits ................................................................................................................. 58 6. The consequences of referrals .................................................................................................................. 59 Chapter 4 .............................................................................................................................................................. 69 Assessment of the work of the Contrôleur général of places of deprivation of liberty in 2015 ........................ 69 1. 2. 3. 4. Relations with public authorities and other legal entities ........................................................................ 69 Cases referred ........................................................................................................................................... 74 Visits conducted in 2015 ........................................................................................................................... 99 Resources allocated to the Contrôleur général in 2015.......................................................................... 106 Chapter 5 ............................................................................................................................................................ 111 “To the Contrôleur général”, Letters received ................................................................................................. 111 160