Long-term deprivation of liberty
staff. Despite this there were no proceedings by the prison institution to
verify the truthfulness of these allegations. This was confirmed by the Management of the facility, which limits itself to sending the injury reports to the
judicial authority. A Suggestion was brought forward, and has been accepted, that the SGIP perform a thorough investigation into the
Sevilla II CP. In addition, another Suggestion was put forward that this
facility puts together a comprehensive action plan for the purposes of reducing the number of incidents and the present level of conflict, and that staff
are encouraged to take part in courses covering peaceful conflict resolution,
crisis intervention, and verbal and non-verbal techniques for avoiding
potential aggressive incidents without having to use methods of restraint.
43. Furthermore, in visits made during 2015 the NPM has continued to insist on the following which are fundamental guarantees of inmates’ rights:
the availability of a legal advisory service during their stay in prison; the extraction and storage of images captured by the video surveillance systems in
the event of incidents; providing inmates with the evidence and requests for
evidence in disciplinary reports; listening to inmates in an atmosphere which
promotes trust; staff training on peaceful conflict resolution.
Fundamental guarantees
§150-152 AR 2014
44. The SGIP has accepted the Recommendation to establish a book
for registering complaints, reports or judicial proceedings in relation
to inappropriate actions or ill treatment by prison staff, for the purposes
of the follow-up and supervision of these by CP management, without prejudice to the forwarding of proceedings to Prison Inspection so that they
may carry out their own specialised and effective investigation.
Record of complaints, reports
and legal procedures in relation
to ill treatment
§153 AR 2014
45. The NPM continues to insist during its visits on the importance of
video surveillance systems in all communal areas and ‘critical’ zones,
such as mechanical restraint cells, in order to prevent torture and ill treatment. In the El Dueso CP, it was verified during the review of reports that
video surveillance recordings are played back during the processing of
disciplinary reports, which is very positive.
Video surveillance
§150, 162 and 216 AR 2014
Images obtained by the video surveillance system in the
Brian I CP (Barcelona)
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