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In addition, while the minor is serving the penalty, he must be allowed, at least, two
hours per day outdoors, to attend compulsory training or education courses and to
receive, in addition, the visits contemplated in his individual educational project.
253. On those occasions that the manager decides to remove a penalty of
separation from the group before it expires, such circumstance should be placed on
record with an entry of the manager in the disciplinary record.
Priority should be given to the use of punishment alternative to separation from the
group such as deprivation of weekend leaves, deprivation of leisure outings and
deprivation from participating in recreational activities.
254. All centres should have protocols for the simultaneous use of contention
means, such as physical or pharmacological contention, mechanical restraints
and provisional isolation. These protocols should establish in detail the manner in
which the personnel should act in these cases, the places in which they will be applied
and, if necessary, extreme the surveillance and control of the isolated minor,
demanding that a medical examination be carried out on the minor and that he is
accompanied for the duration of the isolation and while his state of crisis, of anguish,
persists, particularly if the minor is mechanically immobilised, such situation to be
supervised permanently and preferably by healthcare personnel.
It is also essential for centres to have a specific record of means of contention
recording all means of contention that are used, including mechanical restraint,
personal or pharmacological physical contention, separation from the group or
provisional isolation, the duration of these measures and the reasons for which they
were used, for them to be reported, in full, to the judge and to the Juvenile Public
Prosecutor’s Office, regardless of the internal name given to these means of
contention.
Interior of an isolation room of Ibaiondo in Zumarraga (Bizkaia)
255. It is essential to put in place at all centres a program of phases or progress, in
which the minor progresses from one stage to another, enjoying more privileges
depending on his behaviour and achievement of objectives, strategies and resources
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