and end of the placement- the authority having carried out the measures and the methods of surveillance in particular in relation to medical issues. Isolation should not ipso facto be an obstacle to contact with the body responsible for legal assistance. 4.2.2 Autonomy and daily life Access to personal effects The first breach of the dignity and at the same time of the autonomy of detainees occurs when they are arrested outside their homes - on a work site, on a public street - and are then taken to the CRA without any baggage or spare clothes. When they have baggage, detainees are separated from them upon arrival and leave them at the baggage area. Contrary to the provisions of internal regulations, depositing valuable items (jewels, cash, bank card) is often presented as being obligatory. The fact that this obligation or this strong encouragement is dictated by the interests of the detainee who is thus protected from theft is no less a breach of their autonomy. They are deprived of their personal effects on the basis of a list of prohibited objects, for certain of which, because of their dangerous nature, which it is perfectly understood, very widely: the inspectors found that it is on this basis that some centres prohibited persons to bring in a pen. On the grounds that they could be used to cause self-mutilation or to attack others, detainees have been deprived of their razors; shaving being carried out under police surveillance at precise times and in a specific place. Detainees have no access to their clothes or other objects left at the baggage area without making application, this being under escort of a police officer. Generally access to the baggage area is guaranteed under internal regulations but is limited to a few hours a day. The same is the case for access to the laundry room to deposit and collect linen (sheets and towels). As the CGLPL emphasised in its 2011 activity report, it is not normal that depositing goods that do not constitute objects that are dangerous for centre security is dependent upon third parties. Private areas and respect for personal privacy Illegal immigrant detention centres do not provide individual rooms; they are shared with a minimum of two persons and sometimes 4 to 6 persons. Comfort is often basic and furniture is sparse (a bed, an open bedside cabinet, a cupboard which is not lockable, a table and a chair). They are not designed as a place to live sustainably and are not private areas. In one of the institutions inspected, the rooms were situated between two doors, one giving onto a courtyard and the other onto a corridor giving the area the atmosphere of a passageway. Detainees have no key to their room. Whilst some of them stay there a number of weeks there is no personal appropriation of the area. Accommodation units rarely have a bathroom attached to the room, such facilities being generally reserved for family rooms. Bathrooms, showers and WC's are therefore mostly communal. In one of the institutions inspected, the toilets in some buildings did not lock. In practice, the inspectors have often noted that these areas were in very poor condition (doors and furniture broken, pipes blocked etc.). Whereas detainees have their share in responsibility for this dilapidated state, the inspectors also noted that materials used were not appropriate for their use, that maintenance was lacking and that products used for cleaning proved only relatively effective. 150