Long-term deprivation of liberty
Register Book of disciplinary proceedings, Monteledo (Ourense)
Medical
assistance
protocol in
restraints
Shortcomings in
the application of
restraining
measures
§75 AR 2015
Follow-up on
confinement and
separation
§254 AR 2014
123. The doctor on the Montefiz (Ourense) facility had been working there for
6 months and, as regards the medical assistance protocol in restraints,
he stated unawareness of “how often I have to go” and that the young
offenders themselves “usually request medical assistance following a
restraint”, as well as professional assistance. He was informed that a medical
check-up is mandatory following a mechanical restraint and that the Court
should be informed; he was also unaware of this, given that he merely
entered this intervention into the medical records.
124. When examining disciplinary proceedings and other documentation, in
relation to temporary isolation, we detected that on occasion it had been
applied as a restraining measure, although the disciplinary records
indicated that this situation had been defined and documented as an interim
measure to separate a minor from the group, without taking into account that
interim measures are agreed and applied further to and during the processing
of disciplinary proceedings, but never to justify an earlier action. This
shortcoming was discovered in El Madroño (Madrid), Maliaño (Cantabria), El
Limonar (Seville), Monteledo and Montefiz (Ourense), which have accepted
our Suggestions to change this pattern of conduct.
125. One of the NPM’s specific objectives when visiting young offender
institutions is to supervise how retraining measures are applied and
documented, to particularly include temporary isolation, as well as group
separations. In San Francisco-La Biznaga (Málaga) the doctor stated that
she does not visit the rooms of young offenders separated from the group,
affirming that most of the times she is unaware of the situation, “if nothing is
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