I can be concluded, therefore, that the reality found in the prison of Horta indicates some abandonment – not by the direction and the functions that he performs – but especially by the technical intervention. The fact that new facilities have been recently opened for theprison located in Angra do Heroísmo, significantly increasing its capacity, necessarily required that this place rests a bigger number of prisoners. This circumstance will tend, if it remains the same technical resources, to provide even greater remoteness to the prison of Horta and consequently a decrease in the scant support that should be provided to those who serving a imprisonment aimed the purpose of his/her social reintegration. This is the immediate appreciation that I do of my visit to the Prison Facility of Horta, being convicted that your personal commitment on improving marked will allow to strengthen the prisoners’ rights and, thereby, to fulfill the juridic purposes to the sanctions of imprisonment. • Recommendation no. 4/2015/MNP Visit no. 11-2014 Entity addressed: Chairman of the Board of the Hospital Magalhães Lemos, E.P.E. Date: 2015.06.30 Subject: Psychiatric Hospital. Containment measures. Containment therapy. Isolation rooms I Under the provision contained in subparagraph (b), article 19, of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, I recommend that the following measures should be taken: a) Consolidation of the guidelines for the use of containment measures in accordance with the guidelines of the General Director of Health, as well as with the internal procedure(22); b) Implementation of an independent record of restraints, as foreseen in the model attached to the internal procedure; c) Identification of the different therapeutic solutions that should be considered chemical constraints and, therefore, subject to the applicable procedures and guarantees; (22)  Pro.026.hml, about physical restrictions and/or chemistry/isolation, approved on June 5th, 2013. 80 |