Annual Report 2012: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism
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Facilities that allow
physical contact.
274 (2010), 98 (2011)
Allowed if the personal
and family circumstances
of the inmate make it
advisable, while ensuring
safety.
Intercoms in dormitories.
262 (2010), 95 (2011)
Accepted. Pending
budgetary availability.
Permanent access to
dormitories and
lavatories.
268 (2010), 96 (2011)
The general rule is to
allow permanent access to
dormitories and
lavatories.
Dormitories for individual
or double use.
256 (2010), 97 (2011)
Rejected for budgetary
reasons.
Access to personal
belongings.
278 (2010), 100 (2011)
Allowed except for safety
reasons or at night times.
Access to mobile phones.
279 (2010), 100 (2011)
Allowed but must be
returned after use.
282 (2010), 82 (2011)
Only present at the CIE in
Madrid and its extension
to other centers is under
study.
Resolutions
* Provide CIEs with social
workers.
The CIE in Algeciras must
be closed down
In 2012 the CIEs in
Barcelona, Madrid,
Valencia and Algeciras
were visited
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45. As was set forth in paragraph 254 of the 2010 Annual Report, this Institu
tion considered that at least two of the eight CIEs that were visited should be
closed down; specifically those in Malaga and Algeciras. The first of them was
provisionally closed on the 20th of June 2012 and definitely by means of the Or
der PRE/9/2013, of 8 January. However the CIE in Algeciras is still open, even
though it doesn’t comply with the appropriate conditions that a center of this
nature must have, in spite of the reforms carried out therein. On the other hand,
it has been reported that the CIE in Fuerteventura has been temporary closed due
to the decreased arrival of immigrants.
46. In 2012 visits have been conducted to the CIEs in Barcelona, Madrid, Va
lencia and Algeciras. Although such centers had already been visited in 2010,
and in the case of Valencia, also in 2011, a follow-up was deemed appropriate to
check compliance of the recommendations sent and to identify eventual new
shortcomings.
THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN
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