In a second phase, the female wing of the prison was visited. Currently it has 11 prisoners and the conclusion was that the exception context found in 2009 remains almost unchanged. The spaces were tight, but there was a balanced relationship between the amount of accommodation available and the existing population. In the negative side, it was noted that the cell doors only opened from the outside to the inside, which raised security concerns, not merely in terms of evacuation, as at the level of the physical integrity of the inmates, in particular, in situations of possible suicide attempt. All the female inmates have the meals in their respective cells. Contrary to what has once happened, the prison is no longer providing a support zone for children, since the space now occupied by the prisoners does not allow so. At the end of the visit, it was kept a reserved conversation with four of the young inmates, and there were problems reported on the feeding and housing conditions, in particular regarding the low temperature found in the cells. • 2.2. External initiatives and institutional promotion 2.2.1. Participation in external initiatives The specific nature of torture and places of detention requires a continuous training of all people who develop their work in this particular field. As a result, in the year 2014 it was possible for some elements of the Coordination Commission and the Board of Visitors to participate in external training sessions. It was important, therefore, the invitation of the Federal Council of Switzerland, for an element of the Coordination Commission participate in a Pre-meeting of the National Preventive Mechanisms on the Prevention of Torture, held in Vienna (Austria), on 9 and 10 April, joining 16 other NPM of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) region. The meeting was organized by the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), by mandate of the Swiss Government in the context of its Presidency of the OSCE in 2014, and preceded the OSCE Supplementary Human Rights Dimension Meeting (SHDM) on the prevention of torture, which occurred in the same city and month, but on days 10 and 11. | 31

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