Detention monitoring
Bellechasse Correctional Facilities (Fribourg)9
The Commission rated the material conditions of detention for
the enforcement of custodial sentences as correct and welcomed
the wide range of work opportunities and leisure pursuits on offer.
Conversely, the Commission recommended that the development
of plans for the enforcement of correctional and administrative
measures be expedited so as to provide the inmates with a useful
information resource. It further suggested that rules be established
for the use of security cells and reiterated the need to record every
use of security cells without exception in a special register designed
specifically for that purpose.
c. Psychiatric institutions
University Psychiatric Clinics of Basel (UPC) (Basel-City)10
In June 2017, the Commission visited the UPC in Basel. The focus of the visit was on involuntary placements in the adult and geriatric psychiatric clinics. The Commission welcomed the living conditions and the psychiatric care provided in the facility. It also noted
with satisfaction that the clinic refrains, as a rule, from the use of
mechanical restraint. However, it regrets that in some individual
cases, seclusion measures have been used on patients suffering
from dementia. It further assessed a need for action with regard to
the formalisation of procedures for the ordering of restrictions of
freedom of movement and with regard to issuing treatment plans.
Report to the Government Council of the Canton of Fribourg on the visit of the National Commission for the Prevention
of Torture to the Bellechasse Correctional Facilities on 9 and 10 May 2017 (not yet published at the time of publication of
the Activity Report).
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Report to the Government Council of the Canton of Basel-City on the visit of the National Commission for the Prevention
of Torture to the University Psychiatric Clinics (UPC) of Basel, 6 and 7 June 2017, available online at: https://www.nkvf.
admin.ch/dam/data/nkvf/Berichte/2017/basel-stadt/bericht-basel.pdf (in German).
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