Annual Report 2014 of the National Preventive Mechanism
125. It is considered a matter of concern that it has been observed at certain visits that
inmates are not provided with adequate clothes or footwear when they lack such
belongings. It must be reminded that it is the obligation of the authorities, pursuant to
article 32.2 of the Regulation on the operation and internal system of CIE, to provide
the inmates with such belongings during their stay at the centre, so that allowances
should be made in the budget to implement said article.
126. In general, the safeguards contemplated by the CPT in its 19th General Report,
on the fact that “immigrants detained in an irregular situation should be afforded the
possibility of holding significant contacts with the exterior world (including the right to
make telephone calls and receive frequent visits) and their freedom to move within the
detention centre should be as broad as possible”, are met in Spain.
Nevertheless, it is a matter of concern that, at certain centres, the inmates find
themselves obliged to pay for telephone cards with an overcharge.
127. The use of mobile phones without cameras should be authorised, which
would permit calls to be received from outside and would also minimise the costs
currently incurred by inmates to purchase telephone cards. The use of these
telephones would imply a certain degree of control by the persons responsible
for the centre, as may be the obligation to return them at established resting times or
other controls necessary to safeguard the safety of any inmate in particular.
128. CIE should have leisure and reading material and adequate sports material,
given the free time of inmates, who may remain interned for up to 60 days, and the
lack of activities and entertainment observed at the visits to these centres.
Leisure material at the CIE of Algeciras
129. Likewise, it would be desirable for all CIE to have roofed yards, for the inmates
to be able to go out of doors in poor weather conditions.
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