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 Alongside penal institutions, psychiatric institutions, administrative detention centres and juvenile detention centres, for which the list is stable and understood, France also has several thousand “small” places of deprivation of liberty. These places are scattered and dedicated to an activity of which confinement is a consequence; perhaps necessary, but still an extra: their main purpose is for conducting investigations, dispensing healthcare, awaiting a summons, or simply managing a transfer to a more permanent structure. Ever since its creation in 2008, the CGLPL has visited 220 custody facilities of the national police, 109 custody facilities of the national gendarmerie, 77 court jails and 36 customs detention or custody facilities. The visits are conducted without any prior notice and by two or three inspectors. In 2015, the CGLPL made a double innovation in using the investigations conducted in these facilities: - she replaced the individual sending of the visit reports to the ministers with a collective periodic report, which allowed to draw transversal conclusions for each of the categories of the facilities, in which the problems encountered are, in the end, more or less homogeneous; - she sent these visit reports to the Minister under whose purview each of the facilities concerned would fall, as well as to the Minister of Justice (i.e. the Keeper of the Seals), since all of these facilities are placed under the supervision of the judicial authority, which sometimes finds it difficult to exercise this prerogative. The situation of these small facilities varies due to the different legal systems that are applicable as well as the variety of texts used as their foundation, as well as due to the diversity of their administrative attachment. Thus, it is not the same if a person is placed in custody in the facilities of the police, the gendarmerie or the customs department. However, certain rights related to confinement give rise to relatively similar questions: personalisation of security measures, confidentiality of interviews with lawyers, access to healthcare, surveillance of the prosecution, etc. 6.1 The upkeep and hygiene of the rooms in which people deprived of liberty are roomed are generally guaranteed, but the police and court jail facilities are not up to the mark on these points The lack of operating funds for the national police severely impacts the custody conditions as well as the working conditions of the officers. A certain number of observations can be drawn from this: dirty, dilapidated, poorly lit or poorly heated rooms, unsatisfactory physical hygiene conditions, access to showers often impossible, even if there are some, either because the detainees are not offered any, or due to a lack of hygiene products or bathroom linen. This situation is well known, but the means to remedy it have not been mobilised. 36