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 139

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