Annual report 2011: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism documentation on the establishments to be visited Expert collaborators are a free to conduct technical actions Inspection visit reports include reports by independent experts as annexes Visits were selected to take place over several days, to include non-working days and night-time visits Places of long-term deprivation of liberty were chosen first, some of which had been visited before The following centres for young offenders were visited: Albaidel in Albacete, El Molino in Almería, Pi Gros in Castelló/Castellón Inspection visits were also made to the prison in Castelló/Castellón, the Women’s Prison and 40  be visited, thus enabling them to acquire sufficient prior knowledge. Specific objectives are also established for each inspection visit, i.e. specific points on which each expert is to focus, such as medical care, disciplinary regime, coercive methods, safety measures, etc. 27. During inspection visits, the multi-disciplinary team is led by a member of the NPM, who coordinates all the team members including the independent collaborators. Independent experts are nevertheless free to carry out such technical actions in their specialist fields as they may consider appropriate. 28.  During the final phase, the NPM members must draw up a visit report, including the reports drawn up by the independent experts as independent annex is. These must be taken into consideration when drawing up the conclusions of each inspection visit. These reports are the sole responsibility of the experts in question. 29. Once a decision had been made to conduct multi-disciplinary visits to places of deprivation of liberty and appropriate independent experts had been selected and incorporated into the NPM team, the next step was to decide which establishments they should visit first. Like all other NPM inspections, the visits would be unannounced and would cover several days, including a nonworking day and not ruling out the possibility of night-time visits. 30.  Places of long-term deprivation of liberty were chosen first in view of the repercussion of such deprivation of liberty on the physical and mental state of those held there. Some of the establishments visited had been inspected before, e.g. the centres for young offenders in Castellón, Albacete and Almería, the prison in Castelló/Castellón and the women’s prison in Seville. For others this was the first visit, e.g. for the new incarcerated mothers’ unit in Seville and the Fontcalent psychiatric prison hospital in Alicante (though the latter had been inspected on various occasions prior to the designation of the Ombudsman as NPM). The visits to centres for young offenders took place as follows: the Albaidel centre in Albacete was submitted to a three-day inspection (including one nonworking day) by a team comprising three members of the NPM accompanied by a psychiatrist and a psychologist as independent experts. The El Molino centre in Almería also received a three-day visit from two members of the NPM accompanied by a child psychiatrist and a psychologist as independent experts; finally, the Pi Gros centre in Castellón received a two-day inspection visit from one member of the NPM unit accompanied by an adviser from the Security and Justice Area of the Office of the Ombudsman, a psychiatrist and two psychologists as independent experts. The Fontcalent Psychiatric Prison Hospital (Alicante) received a four-day inspection visit (including two nonworking days) from a team comprising two members of the NPM, an advisor from the Security and Justice Area of the Office of the Ombudsman, two psychiatrists and a psychologist. There was a two-day visit   THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN