Annual Report 2015 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism Recommendation of November 6th 2015. To set up a specific record book in all Prison Facilities which is used for recording all complaints and reports made by inmates, whether verbal or written, in relation to improper behaviour or ill treatment by prison workers so that these may be followed-up and supervised by the management of the facility, as indicated in paragraph 153 of the Annual Report 2014 on Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture. RECOMMENDATION MADE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF CATALONIA ACCEPTED STATUS Recommendation of February 11th 2015. To issue appropriate instructions that in each control carried out by security workers, heads of service and medical staff in all Prison Facilities on restraint measures involving approved straps, the specific state of the inmate and the need to continue with the measure or not be recorded. ACCEPTED II.9.  Socio-health facilities Table 29 RECOMMENDATIONS MADE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, SOCIAL WELLBEING AND FAMILY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ARAGON STATUS Recommendation of May 28th 2015. To adopt criteria and issue orders so that, in general terms, the request to commit someone against their will must be processed through normal channels, prior to the committal itself, by those family members or guardians who are aware of the need for committal and the absence of autonomy of the person affected. ACCEPTED Recommendation of May 28th 2015. To adopt criteria and issue orders so that when there is notification of an emergency situation requiring immediate involuntary committal in a facility, whether voluntary or not, the requirements set out in article 763 of the Civil Procedure Act and developed by Constitutional Court Ruling 141/2012 of July 2nd must be complied with. In particular, that the committal shall only be justified in cases of serious mental disorder and under the conditions for an emergency situation or the immediate need for medical intervention, and that the committal is not only advisable but meets the requirements of need (that no alternative and less detrimental measure can be adopted) and proportionality (with regard to the expected aims). RECOMMENDATIONS MADE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELLBEING OF THE GOVERNMENT OF VALENCIA ACCEPTED STATUS Recommendation of March 26th 2015. To urge the residential facilities in that autonomous community that, in general terms, the request for involuntary committal must be processed through normal channels prior to the committal itself, with the emergency procedure reserved solely for cases where the ‘immediate use of the measure’ is necessary. 102 ACCEPTED

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