rights, specifically prohibiting the inflicting or tolerance of torture, even under orders from a superior officer or in special
circumstances.
The Tabasco Comprehensive Family Development (DIF) system, in conjunction with the National Comprehensive Family
Development system and the National Institute of Migration, opened a shelter for repatriated unaccompanied migrant
children and adolescents in the town of Tenosique, on the southern border with Guatemala and Central America. It
provides accommodation, food, counselling and care for children being repatriated.
In line with the Committee’s recommendations, the public servants of the social rehabilitation centres of Cardenas,
Comalcalco, Macuspana, Tenosique, Huimanguillo and Jalpa de Mendez and the prisons of Centla, Jalapa, Nacajuca,
Paraíso, Villa la Venta and the Tabasco state Juvenile Detention Centre, have received training on the reasonable use and
application of physical force, diploma in human rights, human rights in the penitentiary system, legal and reasonable use of
law enforcement, prison techniques and tactics, security and protection of persons, high security in prison, criminology
and the prison system, and transfer of high-risk inmates.
Regarding the strengthening of programmes to prevent the commission of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading
treatment, the juvenile detention centre in the state of Tabasco provides weekly workshops for inmates and parents on
the treatment and care they should receive from public security personnel. Leaflets provided by the National Human
Rights Commission are also distributed, specifying the provisions in article 18 of the Constitution relating to lawful arrest,
and the assignment of each adolescent to the cell blocks according to their age and conduct.
At the state internment centre for men, the behaviour and treatment of public security personnel responsible for the care
of minor inmates is monitored individually. During 2010, police officers and guards whose conduct was not appropriate
to the treatment of minors have been asked to make the necessary changes.
A number of psychology workshops have been run to raise awareness among guards and staff who deal with
adolescents, in order to prevent acts of torture among inmates. There was also a course on values.
Inmates also receive training through various workshops enabling minors to change their behaviour, resulting in better
treatment by staff and a 95% decrease in violations of the rights of adolescents and 90% fewer clashes between them.
Daily contact is maintained with adolescents and on Wednesdays and Saturdays with parents, informing them of the
conduct observed by the inmates, and of their rights and obligations. Private attorneys are allowed direct communication
with minor inmates. Finally, the Special Judge and the Enforcement Judge visit every month to inform each inmate of their
case.
In order to prevent torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, every complaint by a minor is investigated, regarding
not only the administrative, security and surveillance staff, but also other adolescent inmates.
When minors are admitted to the facility, they are received by the administration and then sent to the medical unit, for an
assessment of their physical condition on arrival; they are transferred by public prosecutors, staff of the investigative body
of the Prosecution Service’s specialist agency for adolescents.
On this same topic, the Tabasco DIF Office for the Defence of Minors and the Family distributes brochures and materials
containing information on torture and other cruel treatment to people applying for the legal advice service.
Tabasco
Regarding the implementation of legislative reforms, we would draw attention to the amendment of the Constitution of the
Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco, which adds the following paragraph to article 4: "The State guarantees all persons
the fundamental rights to justice recognized in the Constitution of the United Mexican States."
Regarding the design and implementation of public policy, on 12 September 2006, Decree 156 enacted the Act
establishing the comprehensive juvenile justice system in the state of Tabasco, along with various additions and reforms to
eleven local instruments, which are also part of the new comprehensive system applicable to minors, i.e. children aged at
least 8 and under 12 years of age, adolescents aged at least 12 and under 18 and over-18s who have committed any act
punishable under criminal law during their adolescence, provided that the time to bring prosecution for that criminal act
has not lapsed.
In order to strengthen the machinery of justice, in 2010 construction began of the law-enforcement centres in the
municipal capitals of Huimanguillo and Cunduacán, which will house agencies of the Prosecution Services with
investigating, specialized and mobile officers; public prosecutors attached to criminal, mixed, family, civil and magistrates
courts; judicial police, forensic services and the coroner service.
Tabasco has 18 detention centres, which together have a population of 4,891 inmates, including 3,999 serving nonfederal sentences, 740 serving federal sentences, and 148 males and four females in the juvenile detention centre.
To keep inmates in good health, the health sector hospitals carried out 28,551 general consultations, 2,376 dental
consultations and 148 psychiatric consultations, in addition to 3,383 transfers to hospitals.
Law-enforcement centres are under construction in the municipalities of Cunduacán, Huimanguillo, Macuspana, Paraíso
and Tenosique.
The 2010 resource allocation for support infrastructure to higher courts was 27,042,578 pesos of which 14,654,355
pesos were spent on the Macuspana Justice Centre.
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