CONTENTS
PRESENTATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS USED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
INSPECTION VISITS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
THE PREVENTION OF TORTURE: STATE OF THE MATTER. . . . . . 27
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY INSPECTION VISITS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SITUATIONS OF DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
I. Short-term deprivation of liberty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
II. Medium-term deprivation of liberty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
II.1.
Detention centres for foreign nationals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
II.2.
Military Detention Centres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
III. Long-term deprivation of liberty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
III.1.
Prisons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
III.1.1.
Prisons answerable to the SGIP (Office of the
Secretary General for Prisons) and the Justice
Department of the Regional Government
of Catalonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
III.1.2.
Alcalá de Henares Military Prison (Madrid). . . . . . . . 199
III.2.
Centres for young offenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
IV. Special-purpose places of deprivation of liberty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
IV.1.
Secure hospital units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
IV.2.
Means of transport for the transfer of persons in custody. . . . 249
IV.3.
Procedures for deporting foreign nationals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING & DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES. . . 255
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN
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