As regards the regime of detention of affected persons in these units, the Minister specified that they are subjected to the ordinary regime and benefit from all of their rights. While the main criterion for selecting these people is the reason for their detention (people taken into custody for acts of terrorism related to violent radical Islamism), people incarcerated for other reasons who exhibit radical behaviour can also be placed in these units. Plans have been made to improve intelligence in prisons. Efforts are being made to improve the detection grid for radicalisation phenomena. The method and tools of evaluation of the people assigned to these units are still being defined. The first programmes for controlling radicalised detainees started in May 2015, for which a progress report should have been submitted in July, before the start of two new programmes in September 2015. The Minister stated that along with these actions, two other action researches in closed environments have been started by the prison administration. As regards the freedom of worship, plans have been made to recruit sixty Muslim Chaplains, as well as to double the Muslim chaplaincy budget. Studies are underway, with the Minister of the Interior, to improve the status, remuneration and qualification of chaplains working in prisons. Collective interventions shall be set up in the arrivals wing of the remand prisons and instructional units of secularism-citizenship shall be implemented for minors and young adults below 25 years of age. The Minister stated that the training of staff is essential and in this respect, training courses have already been implemented and shall be updated by a more in-depth training with respect to supervisors. The staff assigned to the dedicated quarters will receive an orientation training when they take up the functions. Finally, the Minister indicated that 80 million euros (in addition to salaries) have been allocated to the fight against terrorism in prison administrations. The Contrôleur général will keep an eye on the implementation and methods of operation of these units as well as the de-radicalisation programmes. She reserves the option, in accordance with her prerogatives, to once again visit the institutions to make new observations. 2.2 Opinion dated 16 June 2015 concerning the treatment of detainees in healthcare institutions On 16 July 2015, the Contrôleur général published an opinion concerning the treatment of detainees in healthcare institutions in the Journal officiel. The Minister of Justice, the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Health, Social Affairs and Women’s Rights, to whom this opinion was addressed, made their observations in turn. Pursuant to Article 46 of the Prisons Act of 24 November 2009, the quality and continuity of healthcare are guaranteed to detainees in conditions that are equivalent to those that the rest of the population benefits from. And yet, despite the numerous recommendations made by the CGLPL with regard to the question of provision of healthcare to detainees within local health institutions, difficulties still persist as regards the fundamental rights of the detainees. To reduce the numerous removals from prison for medical reasons, the intervention of medical specialists in prisons must be reinforced and more thought must be put in to ensure that detainees meeting certain legal conditions can benefit from permissions to leave in order to check into a healthcare institution by themselves. The observations made on the functioning of 46

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