Annual Report 2016 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture 70. Department inmates often lack sufficient income to buy a television or radio, which is why they have nothing to occupy their time whilst in the cell; this is particularly serious given the special characteristics of this type of deprivation of liberty, and the fact that generally very few activities are arranged in these wards. 71. In short, the closed regime indicates conditions of great hardship, which are aggravated when applying the provisions contained in SGIP Service Order 6/2016, described below. 72. Service Order 6/2016, of 10 August 2016, issued by the General Deputy Manager for Treatment and Prison Management (SGIP), on “Specific security measures to control inmates covered by FIES 1 CD, assigned to departments under a special regime”, aims to “intensify the security measures foreseen in prison regulations” for “inmates playing a leading role in very serious incidents, by directly and seriously harming the physical integrity” of other inmates or prison officers or workers. 73. These special security measures include the following: alone time in the courtyard, assignment to a confinement ward gallery where there are no other inmates, minimum contact with public officers an other staff, periodic change of cell, etc. There is no possible appeal or maximum time limit for the application of these measures, consequently resulting in the inmate’s total isolation. 74. During our visit to the CP in Zuera (Zaragoza), we ascertained that, through said Service Order, an even more restrictive regime is applied than the one foreseen in special closed regime departments, in General Organic Act on Prisons and Prison Regulations (RP) (Articles 91.3 RP and 93.1 RP). Proceedings are underway and will be announced in the next annual report. 68