Annual Report 2012: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism
Dampness in the prison
cells at the Local Police in
Photograph 10
Marbella (Malaga)
Access to the prison cells at
the police station in
Photograph 11
Moncloa-Aravaca (Madrid)
The food supplied has
been the subject of
complaints
There is no uniform
criteria regarding the
clothes and utensils for
relaxing that must be
supplied to detainees
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37. The food which is supplied to detainees has been the subject of complaints in
the different interviews held with them, essentially at the facilities of the Spanish
National Police Force, where prepared food kits are provided. During the visits
this Institution was able to verify that many of such kits were untouched inside
the cells. At two different facilities of the Spanish National Police Force, two
Muslim detainees declared that they had been given food with pork, which after
the appropriate follow up, proved to be untrue in both cases.
38. The different State Security Forces do not have a uniform criteria regarding
the clothes and utensils for relaxing that must be supplied to detainees for their
stay in prison cells, according to the provisions of paragraphs 61 and 133 of the
2010 Annual Report, and 71 of the 2011 Annual Report.
THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN
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