CAT/OP/CHL/1/Add.1
and STIs. The agreement guarantees timely access to the health-care network by children
and adolescents who use SENAME.
114. Moving beyond the Subcommittee’s recommendations, both institutions will work,
within the context of the health subcommittee set up to prepare this report, on a regulation
concerning HIV/AIDS tests for adolescents under the age of 18 who are in the juvenile
criminal responsibility system. In addition to this, they will establish a treatment protocol
for patients with HIV/AIDS and STIs, explicitly preventing discrimination within centres
directly administered by SENAME. It is hoped that both rules will come into effect during
the second half of 2017.
115. Paragraph 66: The Subcommittee recommends that particular attention be devoted to
the examination of patients exhibiting injuries and that specialized training be provided in
this area.
116. On this point, the Government is in the process of updating the regulations for
admission to psychiatric hospitals, instructions for conducting physical examinations and
writing clinical record cards in order to detect injuries on persons forcibly admitted by the
authorities. In addition, the Ministry of Health will send instructions to expedite the
evaluation processes that allow the judicial authorities to expedite suspension of psychiatric
hospital admissions. These instructions will be distributed no later than 30 March 2017.
3.3
Conditions of detention
3.3.1
Infrastructure
117. The Government is focused on improving living conditions in places of deprivation
of liberty. The Prison Service has responded to the Subcommittee’s recommendations by
drafting proposals to improve the situation in this regard.
118. Paragraph 78: The Subcommittee recommends that urgent measures be taken to
improve the unacceptable conditions in Valparaíso Prison and the South Santiago Pretrial
Detention Centre. In the latter facility, it is recommended that the State party relocate the
detainees in a manner that is in keeping with their status as persons charged with a first
offence and dismantle the precarious annexed structure in view of the inhuman conditions
that it affords.
119. The Prison Service is taking concrete steps to upgrade the infrastructure at its
custodial facilities, focusing mainly on the improvement and expansion of employment
workshops. To address this issue, it has prepared several technical reports38 which provide
an overall picture of the state of infrastructure at Valparaíso Prison and South Santiago
Pretrial Detention Centre.
120. A total of 859,049,930 pesos39 has been invested in the Valparaíso Prison Complex
since the Subcommittee’s visit in April 2016. This investment covered the following repairs
and works:
• Expansion of employment workshops (National Fund for Regional
Development) by installing mezzanine levels in two work centres, creating
space for specialized workshops and offices.
• Repairs to Unit 109, including repair of sanitation systems in cells’ shared
bathrooms, repair of discharge pipes, electrical repairs and painting.
• Repairs to Unit 113.
• Electrical repairs in Units 104, 114 and 115, including replacement of sockets
and light fittings in cells and light fittings in corridors and staircase. This work
was carried out by the inmates.
38
39
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Information provided by the Prison Service is from November 2016.
Equivalent to approximately US$ 1,273,856 (23 November 2016).
GE.17-07762
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