Situation of deprivation of liberty The fact that it is declared that the inmates cannot be held accountable means that they are persons with diseases, instead of convicts. Accordingly, the regulation of these establishments differs completely from that of the rest of penitentiary places and is contemplated in articles 183 to 191 RP. 145. The Secretary General for Penitentiary Institutions had two prison psychiatric hospitals (HPP), in Fontcalent (Alacant/ Alicante) and Seville. Due to its geographical location, the HPP de Seville is intended for the confinement of the male prison population of Andalusia, Canary Islands, Extremadura and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, while the HPP of Alicante would take care of the rest of the Spanish territory and of the entire female psychiatric prison population although this is not always the case in practice. Persons declared not accountable on whom a security measure in an HPP has been imposed, persons who while involved in a criminal court proceeding require a psychiatric expert report or assessment to be performed on them and convicts on whom a security measure has been imposed due to supervening mental disease are to be found in HPPs. 146. The penitentiary system of Catalonia has available a healthcare network created under the agreement reached in 2001 between the Departments of Justice and Health of the Government of Catalonia and the Mental Health Services of the Order of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God. Under said agreement, said Order of the Brothers Hospitallers assumes the management of the prison psychiatric resources of Catalonia. The network consists of the following specialised resources: Two prison psychiatric hospitals of the SGIP Healthcare network of the penitentiary system of Catalonia Table 40 Specialised resources of the psychiatric network of the penitentiary system of Catalonia RESOURCE Polyvalent Psychiatric Unit of CP Quatre Camins PROFILE OF PATIENTS Long/medium stay patients, with behavioural problems and who do not need intense rehabilitation work. • External surgery/ambulatory treatment–day hospital. • Rehabilitation unit. Acute and disturbed patients. Prison Psychiatric Hospitalisation Unit of CP Brians-1 (UHPP-C) • Acute patients unit. Patients with serious psychotic condition or very disturbed. It is attempted that they stay two weeks at the most and are subsequently transferred to the subacute patients unit. • Subacute patients unit. Patients with a productive psychotic condition but without special handling problems. Patients may stay several months at it, depending on the type and duration of the measure. • Medium-long stay unit. • Unit of transit to community. It prepares the transit to the community of patients subject to a security measure. Prison Psychiatric Rehabilitation Unit of CP Brians–2 (URPP) Chronic patients with a rehabilitation profile and without serious behavioural disorders. • Crisis observation unit. • Intensive rehabilitation unit for serious mental disorders. 115

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