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
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