Annual Report 2014 of the National Preventive Mechanism In addition, while the minor is serving the penalty, he must be allowed, at least, two hours per day outdoors, to attend compulsory training or education courses and to receive, in addition, the visits contemplated in his individual educational project. 253. On those occasions that the manager decides to remove a penalty of separation from the group before it expires, such circumstance should be placed on record with an entry of the manager in the disciplinary record. Priority should be given to the use of punishment alternative to separation from the group such as deprivation of weekend leaves, deprivation of leisure outings and deprivation from participating in recreational activities. 254. All centres should have protocols for the simultaneous use of contention means, such as physical or pharmacological contention, mechanical restraints and provisional isolation. These protocols should establish in detail the manner in which the personnel should act in these cases, the places in which they will be applied and, if necessary, extreme the surveillance and control of the isolated minor, demanding that a medical examination be carried out on the minor and that he is accompanied for the duration of the isolation and while his state of crisis, of anguish, persists, particularly if the minor is mechanically immobilised, such situation to be supervised permanently and preferably by healthcare personnel. It is also essential for centres to have a specific record of means of contention recording all means of contention that are used, including mechanical restraint, personal or pharmacological physical contention, separation from the group or provisional isolation, the duration of these measures and the reasons for which they were used, for them to be reported, in full, to the judge and to the Juvenile Public Prosecutor’s Office, regardless of the internal name given to these means of contention. Interior of an isolation room of Ibaiondo in Zumarraga (Bizkaia) 255. It is essential to put in place at all centres a program of phases or progress, in which the minor progresses from one stage to another, enjoying more privileges depending on his behaviour and achievement of objectives, strategies and resources 92