Annual Report 2013 of the National Preventive Mechanism Chart 3 Geographical location of places of short-term deprivation of liberty visited in 2013 Same methodology as in previous years 42 15. The visits made in 2013 were carried out using the same methodology as in previous years: confidential interviews were held with detainees who raised no objection, the documentation relating to them was reviewed and the general conditions in which they were found were examined, in addition to the safeguard of their fundamental rights. In addition, during the visits, both the location and structure of the facility, the living system, the detention system and the access to medical attention of the persons deprived of liberty, procedures used