Long-term deprivation of liberty Table 33.  Occupation of the prisons inspected Prison Albolote prison (Granada) Occupation on day of visit (inmates) 1,676 Alcala de Guadaíra prison (Seville) 127 Castellón de la Plana prison 694 Figueres prison (Girona) 199 Barcelona men’s prison 1,851 Las Palmas I prison, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1,267 Melilla prison 315 Tenerife II prison in La Esperanza (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) Fontcalent psychiatric prison hospital (Alicante) Seville Incarcerated Mothers’ Unit 1,085 367 16 Of the various facilities we inspected, we found the most severe overcrowding in Barcelona, where there were 1,900 inmates at the time of inspection, with 71 individual cells and 558 shared, some with up to six occupants in three-tier bunks; Figueres (Girona), where at the time of the inspection visit, there were 170 inmates housed in 56 cells, in some cases four or even six to a cell; Castelló/Castellón, in which there were 47 inmates despite having only 33 places. Indeed, we were told that a few days before the visit two of the cells in the prison had 4 double bunks, a very severe case of overcrowding. The situation improved when a workshop was fitted out to be used as a cell, allowing the inmates to be divided between three shared cells with three bunks each. Nonetheless, there is clearly not enough room in the cells for 6 occupants, particularly in two of the cells where the space is more limited. This situation is in breach of the legal requirement for there to be one prisoner per cell (the “individual cell confinement” principle), referred to in Paragraph 318 of the Annual Report 2010. The result is not only a shortage of space for inmates, but also a shortage of staff to attend to them. On the day of the inspection visit, the women’s module at Castellón de la Plana prison had a 42.4% overcrowding rate (33 places for 47 inmates). Nonetheless, occupation at the facility has fallen by 15% over the last a year and a half -possibly due to the transfer of inmates to the nearby prison of Albocàsser (Castelló/Castellón), which opened in September 2008. This trend is considered very positive, given the overcrowding at the facility in previous years. THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN  Barcelona men’s prison and Castelló/Castellón women’s prison are overcrowded in breach of the legally binding “individual cell confinement” principle (one prisoner per cell)  141