Recommendations
VI.3 Penitentiary centres
Recommendations made to the Secretary General for
Penitentiary Institutions
Recommendation of 21 May 2014.
Adopt, at all centres accountable to that Office of Secretary
General for Penitentiary Institutions, the measures necessary to
ensure that language is no obstacle to fluid communication
between the healthcare services and the inmates requesting
medical assistance, for it to be conducted correctly, without errors
attributable to communication and without detriment to their
personal privacy, such as, for example, through telephone
interpretation services, as contemplated in paragraph 80 of
Annual Report 2012 of the National Preventive Mechanism
against Torture
Recommendation of 27 November 2013.
Provide the infirmaries of all penitentiary centres with a specific
book to enter the healthcare mechanical restraints, as is done for
regimental immobilisations
Recommendation of 19 September 2014.
Give the appropriate instructions to penitentiary centres for the
penitentiary surveillance judge to be immediately informed of the
adoption and cessation of coercive means, for the judge to be
able to exert effective control, understanding that the emergency
situation that may cause them to be adopted does not prevent if
from being reported within a reasonably short time period, as
mentioned in paragraph 108 of Annual Report 2013 of the
National Preventive Mechanism against Torture
Recommendation of 19 September 2014.
Give instructions to the penitentiary centres for the notice made to
the penitentiary surveillance judge of the adoption of coercive
means, in addition to the date and time of commencement and
cessation, and the reasons for adoption of the measure, to
include the following issues: whether the measure was authorised
by the manager or only reported to him; the medical report on
whether or not impediments exist to adopt the measure; total
duration of the measure if cessation is reported; whether or not
the facts gave rise to the institution of a disciplinary proceeding
and, in cases of aggression, whether the aggressor suffers any
mental pathology and/or is receiving psychiatric treatment
according to the criterion of the Ombudsman set out in paragraph
108 of Annual Report 2013
Recommendation of 19 September 2014.
Give the relevant guidelines to penitentiary centres for inmates to
be permitted, for the benefit of the inmates and to make
prolonged isolation less afflictive, to have at least one day of rest
when serving punishment of isolation in cell implying more than
14 days of isolation, as stated in paragraph 107 of Annual Report
2013
Status
ACCEPTED BUT NOT
IMPLEMENTED
PARTLY ACCEPTED
REJECTED
PARTLY ACCEPTED
REJECTED
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