Mínimum criteria in deprivation of liberty
Yard of the Penitentiary Psychiatric Hospitalisation Unit of CP Brians-1 (UHPP-C)
230. The information delivered to patients on admission should be available in
various languages, in addition to Spanish, delivered both to patients and to their family
relatives and be situated visibly at various places in the centre.
231. Generally, the internment in penitentiary psychiatric units and hospitals extend
until the end of the security measure, which implies that, in practice, the person with a
mental disease stays for a time much longer than he would have remained in prison
had he be convicted as guilty, since the maximum penalty provided by law could not
have been imposed and penitentiary benefits could have been applied.
Special services should exist for a study of alternative measures to be carried
out, from admission, setting therapeutic objectives, by common agreement with
the penitentiary surveillance judge and the sentencing judge, enabling patients to be
attended in an alternative surrounding before the time of deprivation of liberty that the
maximum penalty would have implied elapses.
In addition, the penitentiary Authority should coordinate with other Public Authorities
with powers for the matter for the psychiatric treatment of the inmates to be
continued, if necessary, after they are released to liberty, and for the patients
whose personal and litigation situation so permits to be included in the rehabilitation
programs and intermediate structures existing in the community model for mental
health assistance.
232. The centres must have adequate rehabilitation units with sufficient personnel
to be able to carry out customised treatment plans with patients including an
assessment and a proposal of therapeutic objectives and rehabilitating activities,
updated regularly.
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