Long-term deprivation of liberty Viewing with a video surveillance system, in the new mechanical restraint cell, CP Bilbao Article 75 RP §180-185 AR 2014 80. One of the issues examined during our visits is application of Article 75 RP, both as regards the frequency and causes of application, and compliance terms and length. The application of regimental limitations further to this article should be exclusively limited to facts which, due to their seriousness, endanger prison safety and order, and cases where other less grievous measures cannot be adopted, or summary disciplinary proceedings conducted, in order to achieve the objectives sought, in a pro-inmate manner. On the matter, we have reported excessive use of this measure at CPs in CP Araba/Álava, Tenerife II and Zuera (Zaragoza). Instead, during our visit to CP Ocaña II (Toledo), where during our first visit in 2012 we observed an inadequate application of Article 75 RP, we ascertained that it had significantly improved, reducing both the frequency and length of the measure. Medical checkup in regimental measures §187, 188 and 190 AR 2014 Radiological examinations §195 AR 2014 81. There is still no protocol gathering the guidelines to be followed in medical check-ups in confinement situations and supervision of confinement cell conditions. At present, medical check-ups in these cases are carried out according to each doctor’s professional opinion, based on the inmate’s characteristics and background. In fact, at CP Araba/Álava we noticed that very brief entries were made in the clinical records of medical check-ups completed in these cases. However, in our follow-up visit to CP Ávila it seems that doctors were more involved, with respect to mechanical restraints, than in our earlier visit of 2015. 82. During our visit to CP Ocaña II (Toledo), we ascertained that an informed consent form, for radiological examinations for non-medical reasons, was being used (if the inmate is suspicious of concealing forbidden substances in 71

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