Mínimum criteria in deprivation of liberty
267. The clinical records of minors should record the pharmacological contention
guidelines in the case of agitation, to enable an immediate response if necessary.
268. It is necessary for all centres to have adequate and sufficient medical and
psychological attention, with specialised training in attending the population in
question. Psychiatric attention is essential, particularly where the facilities have
therapeutic units.
It is also essential for systematic and active coordination to exist between the
management and the educational and medical-healthcare team.
269. The measures for therapeutic internment of minors are a matter of concern.
Indeed, centres with units of this kind must provide specialised educational attention
or specific treatment targeted to persons suffering mental alterations or
abnormalities, a state of dependence on alcohol, toxic drugs or narcotics, or changes in
their perception that imply a serious alteration of awareness of reality.
In this respect, a specific treatment program for the internment measure should be
available, with the recommended social-healthcare guidelines and controls to ensure
their compliance, which should form part of the individual program for implementation
of the measure.
It should be suggested to the minors’ judge that it would be advisable to transfer the
minor to a social-healthcare centre, if his progress when serving the interment
measure renders this advisable, in the opinion of the respective professionals.
270. It is considered necessary to extreme precautions to avoid suicide conduct at
these facilities. All centres should have a Suicide Prevention Protocol which should be
regularly assessed as to its effectiveness and should be known by all the personnel of
the establishment.
271. Injury report forms should be established conforming to the
Recommendations of the Ombudsman’s Office set out in the report of the NPM on
Injury reports on people deprived of their liberty and, where the medical services assist
a person who was injured due to a purported aggression, it should be completed and
sent to the court authority as contemplated in said report.
272. It is considered necessary for centres to have sufficient professionals, selected
through a careful recruitment process, with personal maturity and capacity to face
the challenges of working with and protecting the wellbeing of this group, capable of
guiding and motivating juvenile offenders.
273. The existence of the tutor of the inmate minors is considered necessary and the
number of tutors should be sufficient.
274. In addition, the management of these establishments should be entrusted to
persons with leadership ability, capable of answering effectively the demands made
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