Annual Report 2013 of the National Preventive Mechanism Squat toilet in a cell of CP Puerto I (Cádiz) Plan for Amortisation and Creation of Penitentiary Establishments With regard to the conclusions and resolutions issued by the Ombudsman relating to the CP facilities visited in previous years, it is to be noted that the Cabinet of Ministers approved on 5 July 2013 an amendment to the Plan for Amortisation and Creation of Penitentiary Establishments (Plan de Amortisación y Creación de Establecimientos Penitenciarios –“PACEP”), which contemplates improvement works proposed by this Institution. III. 2. Prison psychiatric hospitals 144. A security measure is the legal consequence applied to a person who had a criminal conduct from which he was declared exempt of criminal liability. In these cases, the judge or court may apply, if necessary, a measure without deprivation of liberty or a measure of custody for medical treatment or special education in an establishment adequate for the type of abnormality or mental disorder observed. Security measures of deprivation of liberty may be applied in prison psychiatric hospitals or units, prisons or psychiatric centres of the public healthcare network 114 In the case of persons with a mental disease, security measures of deprivation of liberty may be applied in penitentiary psychiatric hospitals or units, at ordinary penitentiary units or at psychiatric centres of the public healthcare network. The few alternatives for such security measures means that in most cases judges designate prisons and prison psychiatric hospitals for the purpose. The authorities having centres of this type are the two that exercise penitentiary powers: the Secretary General for Penitentiary Institutions, attached to the Ministry of the Interior, and the Department of Justice of the Government of Catalonia.