Each detainee is entitled to a personal hygiene set and a pair of disposable bed sheets, which are changed after 6 days, and blankets. In what concerns food is provided by an external company. Three daily meals are served (breakfast, lunch and dinner). There is a set of specifications where you can check the components of the day meal. Diet meals are provided when necessary. Detainees are entitled to contact a lawyer or an embassy. To the detainee it is given a card with € 5,00 for potential contacts in the phone booth. At the end of the visit, some detainees were listened and they complained about the lack of foreign channels on television and the absence of a small evening meal (supper). In short, the reality found in the Temporary Installation Centre of the Faro Airport deserves a positive impression, namely by its organisations, conditions of detention and cleanliness of the facility. It is only to point out the complaints from detainees about the lack of foreign channels on television and the absence of an evening meal (supper). • Visit no. 35-2015 Date: 2015.11.24 Location: Estabelecimento Prisional de Faro [Faro’s Prison Facility] (Faro) Subject: Detention conditions, namely the access to the shower room. Terms of occupation of inmates’ leisure. Individual therapeutic planning for inmates with addictions. Procedures of contact with the outside world (v.g., phone calls) In the morning of November 24th, a visit was made to the Prison Facility of Faro. The physical space was assessed regarding the living conditions of the inmates. The main accommodation sector presented a dusty atmosphere, probably caused by the construction work to renovate cell doors, executed by the inmates as part of a prison establishment initiative. Nonetheless, good parameters of maintenance and ventilation were attested in the cells. The larger dormitories had the worse hygienic conditions (one dormitory, for instance, accommodated 18 inmates). The dormitory occupied by the inmates serving weekend detention sentences was overcrowded. The prison directorate referred it as a problem of serious concern. This shared accommodation, located outside the main building, was equipped with 36 beds in 40 m2, and a dining table in a small adjacent room featuring 13 m2. The natural light and ventilation conditions are poor. It was not possible to visit the showers, as they remained occupied throughout the duration of the visit. Nonetheless, it was referred by one of the guards interviewed that 54 |