Multi-disciplinary inspection visits to Castellón Prison by one member of the NPM, an advisor from the Security and Justice Area of the Office of the Ombudsman and a forensic medical practitioner as an independent expert. One-day visits were made to the Women’s Prison and the Incarcerated Mothers’ Unit in Seville by two NPM members and a forensic medical practitioner who is also a Professor of Legal Medicine. the Incarcerated Mothers’ 31. Certain places of short-term deprivation of liberty run by the CNP were assigned second place on the list of priorities. In view of the particular characteristics of these establishments, inspection visits were made on nonworking days and at night. The establishments in question were the Provincial Information Brigade headquarters, which had not previously been inspected, and the Central Registry of Detainees, both in Madrid. They are located in a major police complex. Both visits were made in the early hours of a non-working day, by three NPM members and a psychiatrist acting as an independent expert. CNP-run places of 32.  These visits were intended to check whether any shortcomings detected on previous inspections had been put right, and to interview a representative number of persons deprived of liberty, to check medical files (types of medication & frequency with which they were administered), and to check any case records in which there were medical reports recording injuries suffered by persons deprived of their liberty; to check the case files on any incidents recorded, examine and check disciplinary records and sanctions imposed; to examine the complaints book at each establishment; to examine the visitors’ book; to interview staff, etc. The inspection visits 33. Finally, mention should be made of an interesting initiative by the Council of Europe in appointing an Independent Medical Advisory Board (IMAP) under the framework of the European NPM Project. This is a board of medical experts with broad experience in visiting places of deprivation of liberty, whose remit is to advise NPMs on medical issues that may arise during their mandates, such as the right of detainees to healthcare, the psychiatric consequences of time in prison and the use of coercion measures. One of the independent experts who accompanied the Spanish NPM on inspection visits attended an international workshop organised by this project. One of the independent THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN  Unit in Seville and the Fontcalent Psychiatric Prison Hospital in Alicante short-term deprivation of liberty were visited in second place focused mainly on interviewing persons deprived of liberty and assessing medical and disciplinary issues, among others experts attended an international workshop organised under the framework of the Council of Europe’s IMAP initiative  41

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