Annual Report 2012: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism
and open regimes imposed on pregnant minors or who have children under the
age of 3 in their care.
Figure 6. Geographic location of centers for juvenile offenders inspected
in 2012
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Valladolid
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Madrid
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Brea del Tajo
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All of the inspection visits
were multidisciplinar
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136. All of the inspection visits were carried out by multidisciplinary teams com
prising external specialists, experts in psychiatry and psychology, some of them
specialized in child psychiatry. The inspection visits to the «Teresa de Calcuta»
and «Zambrana» centers, which have the biggest occupancy, were carried out over
a period of two days. During the inspection visits interviews were held with the
management teams and staff members. Private interviews were also held with mi
nors on a voluntary basis. In addition, at the «Teresa de Calcuta» center self-ad
ministered questionnaire-interviews were handed out to the minors and to the
psychologists, educators, social workers and technical intervention assistants (ab
breviated as TAI in Spanish). Moreover, the documents regarding minors at the
centers were reviewed, including procedures used in handling the minors and le
gal and administrative measures established and applied at the centers, log books,
personal, disciplinary and medical files, internal rules and regulations, etc. The
«Teresa de Calcuta» and «Zambrana» centers were inspected without prior notice.
The «Las Palmeras» center, however, was informed in advance of the inspection
given that in this case the NPM was accompanied by a delegation from the Arme
nian Ombudsman Institution, which is participating in the TAIEX (JHA IND/
STUD 50469) project organized by the European Commission.
THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN
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