Annual report 2011: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism sleep in individual or at most two-person bedrooms cally at full capacity, e.g. throughput at the Madrid centre was 2,685 foreign nationals. This means that the communal dormitories are full, with all the problems that this entails. A recommendation was therefore issued to the DGP for renovation work to be done as necessary at CIEs to enable detainees to sleep in individual or at most two-person bedrooms, since the current situation is not considered reasonable when deprivation of liberty may last for as long as 60 days, as mentioned in paragraph 256 of the Annual Report 2010. Men’s dormitory at the CIE Photo 32 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife Women’s dormitory at the CIE in Las Palmas de Gran Photo 33 Canaria There needs to be a specific room for visits from the families and legal counsel of detainees 118  98.  On the inspection visit to the CIE in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria it was observed that there was no specific room set aside for visits from detainees’ families and legal counsel: visits take place in the access corridor, where confidentiality of communication is not guaranteed. One of the female detainees complained about this, and about the short duration of visits (around 10 minutes). Magistrate’s Court nº 3 Valencia, which monitors the CIE in that city, ruled on April 27,   THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN

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