A/HRC/13/39/Add.2 Even though he was HIV positive, he did not receive any medication. He felt he was being held like an animal. He had to hand in a written request if he wanted to see his family, but he had not seen them for 4 1/2 months. He had been detained in this cell for six months; in total, he has been in isolation for two years. He would like to be detained with others. Dr. Bernardo Etchepare and Santin Carlos Rossi Psychiatric Care Visited on 25 March 2009 General information 95. The Special Rapporteur was received by Osvaldo del Campo, the Director of the institution. Colonia Dr. Bernardo Etchepare and Santin Carlos Rossi is a large institution for psychiatric patients with more than 20 different pavilions situated in a park. Within the facilities is one high security pavilion, where some patients deprived of their liberty based on a judicial order were held, as well as patients who were not criminals but still considered dangerous. In total, there were 59 patients detained based on a judicial order who lived in different, also open pavilions. The average duration of a stay in the facilities was 20 years. The patients were distributed among the different pavilions according to their disease. 96. The high security pavilion had a capacity of 20 beds. However, at the time of the visit, 22 patients were held there. According to the psychiatrist working in the building, Beatrice Pasturno, doctors came to see the patients three times a week. The doctors had their offices in a different building. If a patient fell into a psychomotor crisis he could be restrained by doctors, sometimes with the help of other detainees. The psychiatrist reported that alcoholics, who were not actually mentally ill, were often sent to the facility. Also, many crack addicts without families were detained there. There were no minors held at the facilities and there was no special high security pavilion for women. If problems with women arose, they were sent to Vilardebó. Many persons tried to escape. The staff suggested that the material conditions of some pavilions could be improved and that patients should be offered some type of education or occupation programme. Individual cases 97. Jorge Miranda, from Paysandú, was transferred to Etchepare after being detained at COMCAR. He had spent three years in an open pavilion, but was now held in the security pavilion, where there had already been three deaths. He noted that he had a girlfriend in one of the pavilions. 98. Luis Alberto Olivera Martínez had been previously detained at COMCAR and had been at Etchepare for two years. He reported that he had a wound from a surgical operation which had not yet been treated. He noted that he was generally treated well, but that he was not given any clothes. 99. A male patient had lived at Etchepare for 20 years and was at Vilardebó hospital before that. He used to be an alcoholic and received electroshocks, which according to him was the only treatment that helped him. Women’s Pavilion, Departmental Prison of Canelones Visited on 25 March 2009 General information 100. The Special Rapporteur was received by Blanca Esmit (officer in charge). The women’s pavilion is completely separate from the men’s prison and staffed with only 42 GE.09-17655