The Department is in charge of the Ombudsman’s monitoring activities, which include in particular: - State prisons - Local prisons - Halfway houses under the Prison and Probation Service - Detention facilities for intoxicated persons - Psychiatric wards - Social and social-psychiatric accommodation facilities - Non-discrimination of persons with disabilities - Forced deportations of foreign nationals The Department especially processes specific cases involving: - Sentence enforcement and custody - Police and criminal cases - Psychiatry - Social care institutions As at 1 May 2014