Annual Report 2016 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture
formalising the special labour relationship held by the inmate and the State
Entity for Prison Work and Employment Training, which will cover various
issues of the relationship: professional category, work day, remuneration
model, type of remuneration, etc.
Poor inmates
Video
surveillance
§477 AR 2010
§216 AR 2014
Food §215 AR
2014
Fire-fighting
measures
§218 AR 2014
Children’s
facilities §57
AR 2015
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104. Another issue we detected in our visits was the lack of economic
resources foreseen by prison facilities to assist impoverished inmates who,
as a result, cannot access items that would improve their quality of life, albeit
slightly (phone cards, eye glasses, dental work, etc.). In some CPs, attempts
have been made to help through the Prison Church Service or an NGO, or
assistance is provided with the prison’s own funds. Nevertheless, in some
cases, inmates resort to selling their own medication (other than under “directly
observed treatment”) or scheme in order to make money. This is why the
prison administration should consider endowing a specific budgetary item to
cover these poverty situations.
105. CP video surveillance systems still do not conform to NPM criteria, both
as regards coverage of the system and the recording or saving of images. For
instance, at CP Ávila no recordings are made and at CP León, of the 298
video surveillance cameras, only 30 allowed a recording. Nevertheless, certain
improvements were in fact observed during our follow-up visit to CP Gipuzkoa.
106. The inmates complained about the food, either because it was
considered poor, badly cooked or served cold, at CPs in Araba/Álava and
Zuera (Zaragoza).
107. During our visits, we insisted on the need to improve fire-fighting
measures. This was the case, for instance, in CPs in Jaén, Ocaña I (Toledo)
and Tenerife II.
108. Given that the Tenerife Mother’s Unit has not yet opened, CP Tenerife II
continues to accommodate children under three (we identified a girl during our
visit), although no adequate children’s facilities are available; as a result,
mothers and their children share the same space with other female inmates,
which is inadequate.
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