Places of Medium-Term Deprivation of Liberty the repatriation of women who have come ashore along the coastline and are accompanied by babies. Furthermore, most of the CIEs do not have the family modules referred to as “módulos de convivencia familiar” and, when they do have them, they tend not to use them, as there are no dedicated canteens or yards that cater for the true coexistence of a family unit, and involve additional staff requirements in terms of guards that are difficult to fulfil. The standard practice followed in the few incoming cases of entire families is to send the father to the men’s area and keep the mother and minor together, with the father being allowed, at the most, to spend a few hours with his family. Most of the CIEs do not 284. The inspection visit to the CIE in Algeciras (Cadiz) included interviews with several women who indicated that they had yet to reach legal age. A check made of these women’s files provided the result of the corresponding bone-measurement tests that the Attorney General used as the basis for the presumption of legal age of these people. Nevertheless, attention was drawn to the fact that depending on the medical team and the medical centre where these tests were carried out, the results were exactly the same, filled in on a standard form on which exactly the same conclusions were reached for the different people examined, with no personal data or clarifications for each individual case. Thus, for example, the tests conducted at the Hospital Clínico San Cecilio in Granada for two cases on the same day reported that the individuals examined were, in the doctor’s opinion, “aged 18 or over”, and the tests conducted at the Hospital Materno-infantil “Virgen de las Nieves”, in the same city, for four consecutive cases, the result was “over 21”. None of these examples considers the application of the age brackets established by the method used (Greulich and Pyle). Regarding this matter, the State Attorney General is being petitioned to call upon attorneys to require medical reports to be more accurate and comprehensive. Bone-measurement tests have family modules have been conducted to determine the assumption of legal age in the event of any doubt. Nevertheless, the State Attorney General is being petitioned to call upon attorneys to require medical reports to be more accurate and comprehensive II. Military Detention Centres 285. Public General Act 8/1998, of 2 December, is the legislation governing the The armed forces’ Disciplinary Regime of the Spanish Armed Forces. The punishments that officers disciplinary regime is in the armed forces can impose upon their subordinates following the committing of serious faults, as provided for in article 8 of the aforementioned act, may involve a period of detention ranging from one month and a day to two months, to be governed by PGA 8/1998, of 2 December. The disciplinary measures for serious faults may served in a Military Detention Centre (EDM) (art. 9.2). Nevertheless, article 69 of involve a period of the same act provides for concurrent cases of two or more disciplinary measures detention ranging from extending to a maximum of four months of deprivation of liberty. On the other hand, the second paragraph of article 14 of said act permits this detention to be one month and a day to two months effected in a military establishment other than an EDM in justified cases. Articles THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN 123

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