Annual report 2011: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism
sleep in individual or at
most two-person
bedrooms
cally at full capacity, e.g. throughput at the Madrid centre was 2,685 foreign
nationals. This means that the communal dormitories are full, with all the problems that this entails. A recommendation was therefore issued to the DGP for
renovation work to be done as necessary at CIEs to enable detainees to sleep in
individual or at most two-person bedrooms, since the current situation is not
considered reasonable when deprivation of liberty may last for as long as 60 days,
as mentioned in paragraph 256 of the Annual Report 2010.
Men’s dormitory at the CIE
Photo 32
in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Women’s dormitory at the
CIE in Las Palmas de Gran
Photo 33
Canaria
There needs to be a specific
room for visits from the
families and legal counsel
of detainees
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98. On the inspection visit to the CIE in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria it was
observed that there was no specific room set aside for visits from detainees’ families and legal counsel: visits take place in the access corridor, where confidentiality of communication is not guaranteed. One of the female detainees complained
about this, and about the short duration of visits (around 10 minutes). Magistrate’s Court nº 3 Valencia, which monitors the CIE in that city, ruled on April 27,
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