Annual Report 2015 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism
Information relative to CP facilities under the Justice Department of the Government of Catalonia had not
been received at the time of finalising this report.
164. Section I.3.1 reflects the main conclusions of the visits made to CP in 2015. In addition, Annex II.3.1
(electronic format) details the conclusions and, where appropriate, examples of good practice which have been
sent to the SGIP and to the Justice Department of the Government of Catalonia, with respect to each of
the CP visited during 2015.
IV.3.2. Prison psychiatric hospitals
165. Data on prisoners detained in SGIP-run prison psychiatric hospitals during 2015 is compiled in the following table.
Table 41
Number of prisoners who, on December 31st 2015, were receiving care
in prison psychiatric hospitals run by the SGIP
PRISON PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS
No.
Fontcalent-Alicante
292
Seville
165
TOTAL
457
Source: Produced in-house from data provided by the SGIP
IV.3.3. Young Offender Institutions
166. According to a study prepared by the National Statistics Institute (Spanish acronym INE) published on
September 24th 2015, a total of 15,048 final judgments were recorded during 2014 in the Register of Criminal
Liability of Minors, representing a 2.1 % increase on the previous year.
The rate of minors between 14 and 17 years old sentenced per 1,000 inhabitants in the same age range
was 8.7 compared to the 8.6 recorded the previous year. Analysis of the number of criminal offences committed by minors (two out of three sentenced minors had committed one sole criminal offence and one out of
three had committed more than one) and their type shows that 25,717 were recorded, which is 0.4 % less than
the previous year. Broken down by sex, male minors committed 81.7 % of the criminal offences and females 18.3 %.
During 2014, judges adopted 24,496 measures, representing a 3 % increase with respect to the previous
year. The most frequently adopted measures were probation (39.2 % of the total), community service (17.6 %)
and committal to a semi-open facility (11.6 %).
With regard to the nationality of the offenders, foreign minors are committed more often to closed and semiopen facilities (4.6 % and 15.7 % of the total, respectively) than Spanish minors (1.7 % and 10.3 %). In contrast,
measures involving socio-educational tasks and community service are imposed less frequently on foreign
minors (8.6 % and 15.4 % of the total, respectively) compared to Spanish minors (11.6 % and 18.3 %).
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