Annual Report 2012: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism In respect to the Araba/Alava prison, the Alava Provincial Council has tried to mitigate the lack of public transport to the prison by hiring a taxi whenever nec­ essary to drive an inmate or relative to the prison for a cost of 1.75 €. The conditions of the 130. Improvement of the architecture of recently built prisons, such as the pris­ different types of rooms at ons of Araba/Alava and Murcia II, is evidenced in numerous details, in particu­ new prisons have improved lar enlarging cells from 10 to 13 m2, resizing the common areas of the modules (dining room, TV room, etc.), new productive cooking and gardening work­ shops, a canopy to facilitate internal circulation and to allow inmates to be cov­ ered when going from one building to another, and elimination of the surveil­ lance tower. Photograph 25 Cell at the Murcia II prison Canopy at the Photograph 26 Araba/Alava prison 104 THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN