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 78 104. 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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