To conclude, the current provision for children left with their imprisoned mothers at Dijon remand prison do not enable the children to thrive, particularly because there is no nursery wing. Furthermore, the circular dated 16 August 1999 is not being applied as effectively as it could. The mobilisation and dedication of the various stakeholders – institutional, voluntary and prison, etc. – would, however, help to offset some of the structural shortcomings and to more appropriately accommodate children left with their imprisoned mothers. The report drawn up following these on-site verifications has been forwarded to the remand prison's management, which has not made any comments in return. 4.1.3 Two unannounced on-site verifications at a detention centre for illegal immigrants Two on-site verifications were conducted without prior notice following reports in detention centres for illegal immigrants. One concerned the situation of a family, following on from the on-site verifications that had already been carried out on the question of provision for families in detention centres for illegal immigrants. The other concerned the situation of a migrant placed in Le Mesnil-Amelot detention centre 2 (CRA2) following a refusal to board a plane as part of a removal measure to Cameroon. On their arrival at the detention centre, the inspectors found that the migrant being detained was in a seclusion room, lying down on his back next to a mattress, with his hands clasped together on his stomach by a personal protective device, his ankles bound with self-adhesive tape (it has been placed around his knees but had slipped to his ankles), a headguard and his clothes stained with excrement; the floor of the room bore traces of urine. The toilet pan had come loose and was damaged, and the frame of the door to the seclusion room had shunted a millimetre towards the outside. A dozen police officers were stationed in front of the seclusion room door. The inspectors found the detention conditions of this migrant to be inhuman and degrading. In light of the findings gathered both from the border police and the migrant detained, they concluded that even though the latter was partly to blame for the inhuman and degrading situation in which he found himself, it was no less true that the context and absence of measures other than security measures taken to try and improve the situation were likely to lead to a recurrence of such a situation. Discussions and new procedures are required to avoid a repeat of this situation. 4.1.4 Hospitalisation conditions of a fourteen-year-old child Following a report, the Chief Inspector delegated two inspectors to check the conditions in which a fourteen-year-old child had been hospitalised for nearly eight months. These on-site verifications were conducted as part of the drafting of the thematic report on the fundamental rights of children in mental health institutions. They are elaborated upon in this thematic report, and have also been addressed by a specific, more detailed report. In this report, the inspectors analysed the circumstances of this child, accommodated in a unit for adults, where he remained for almost eight months in a locked room, initially for almost three months in the seclusion room of an intensive care unit, and then nearly five months in a speciallyequipped room of the locked unit. Although the nursing staff did their best to brighten up his stay, he only received visits from his family assistant two to three times a week and child welfare social workers every ten days or so. A few rare outings were organised, always in the company of two adults and subject to the Prefect having been informed 48 hours in advance. The inspectors found that this situation not only illustrated but also summed up a number of the problems often observed. A deprived sector, with no child psychiatry bed in full-time hospitalisation and unable to provide this child with mental health monitoring right when he needed 96

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