Annual Report 2012: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism
Image 4. Geographical location of the prison facilities visited in 2012
Alava 1
Pontevedra
1
1
Barcelona
1
1
1
1
1
Ocaña
1
Alcala de Guadaira
1
Murcia
1
Except for one, the rest of
the monitoring visits were
of a multidisciplinary
nature, following the same
methodology
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75. All the visits had a duration of two days and were of a multidisciplinary na
ture –with experts in psychiatry and legal and forensic medicine–, except the one
carried out to the prison of Alcala de Guadaira (Seville), which consisted of a
monitoring visit similar to the one undertaken the previous year. The methodol
ogy applied at the multidisciplinary visits consisted of interviews with the staff
(essentially the management and the healthcare personnel) and individual inter
views to a selection of inmates chosen according to criteria based on age, nation
ality and module. Likewise, the criteria used for their selection was the fact of
their having been recently subject to penalties or means of restraint, of being in a
situation of isolation at the time (either due to a penalty or as a means of re
straint), that Article 75.1 of the prison regulations was being applied to them, of
them being interned at the infirmary, or of inmates being classified as first de
gree. On the other hand, during the visits an examination of the disciplinary
proceedings was carried out, with a special interest to those resulting from inci
dents where means of restraint had been used or had resulted in injuries and
cases of application of means of restraint (in particular in cases of physical re
straint); in addition to assessing the systems for video-surveillance and recordTHE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN
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