Overview of Recommendations submitted by the Commission in 2017
women in Granges as inappropriate. It described the accommodation of pregnant women as intolerable. The Commission recommends that the competent authorities at the
Granges administrative detention centre take urgent measures for the transfer of women to another facility (NCPT Report, Granges 2017, pp. 5 and 6).
b.
Strip searches
– The Commission encourages consistent use of two-phase
body search method and to put this down in writing, where
applied, the keeping of a written record thereof, in the Bässlergut Prison (NCPT Report, Bässlergut 2017, p. 4) and the
Realta Correctional Facility (NCPT Report, Realta 2017, p. 4).
– The Commission recommends that the Realta Correctional
Facility (administrative detention under immigration law), alter its policy removing the personal clothes of incoming detainees, and allow detainees to keep their personal clothing
(NCPT Report, Realta 2017, p. 5-6).
c.
Security and preventive measures
– The Commission recommends that the Favra Intercantonal
Facility as well as the Realta Correctional Facility regularly
conduct medical examinations of individuals held in solitary
confinement (NCPT Report, Favra 2017, p. 5).
– The Commission recommends that the Bässlergut Prison provide adequate psychiatric treatment for individuals at risk of
suicide and that such individuals be accommodated in suitable facilities (NCPT Report, Bässlergut 2017, p. 8).
– Security and preventive measures should be subject to frequent review as to whether they continue to be necessary
(NCPT Report, Bässlergut 2017, p. 7).
– The Commission recommends that the Realta Correctional
Facility make placement in solitary confinement subject in all
cases to a formal order and that all security and preventive
measures be properly documented (NCPT Report, Realta
2017, p. 7).
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