Situation of deprivation of liberty
The fact that it is declared that the inmates cannot be held accountable means that they are persons with diseases, instead of convicts.
Accordingly, the regulation of these establishments differs completely
from that of the rest of penitentiary places and is contemplated in articles 183 to 191 RP.
145. The Secretary General for Penitentiary Institutions had two
prison psychiatric hospitals (HPP), in Fontcalent (Alacant/ Alicante)
and Seville. Due to its geographical location, the HPP de Seville is intended for the confinement of the male prison population of Andalusia,
Canary Islands, Extremadura and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and
Melilla, while the HPP of Alicante would take care of the rest of the
Spanish territory and of the entire female psychiatric prison population although this is not always the case in practice. Persons declared
not accountable on whom a security measure in an HPP has been
imposed, persons who while involved in a criminal court proceeding
require a psychiatric expert report or assessment to be performed on
them and convicts on whom a security measure has been imposed due
to supervening mental disease are to be found in HPPs.
146. The penitentiary system of Catalonia has available a healthcare
network created under the agreement reached in 2001 between the Departments of Justice and Health of the Government of Catalonia and the
Mental Health Services of the Order of the Brothers Hospitallers of St.
John of God. Under said agreement, said Order of the Brothers Hospitallers assumes the management of the prison psychiatric resources of
Catalonia. The network consists of the following specialised resources:
Two prison psychiatric
hospitals of the SGIP
Healthcare network of
the penitentiary system of
Catalonia
Table 40
Specialised resources of the psychiatric network of the penitentiary system of Catalonia
RESOURCE
Polyvalent Psychiatric
Unit of CP Quatre
Camins
PROFILE OF PATIENTS
Long/medium stay patients, with behavioural problems and
who do not need intense rehabilitation work.
• External surgery/ambulatory treatment–day hospital.
• Rehabilitation unit.
Acute and disturbed patients.
Prison Psychiatric
Hospitalisation
Unit of CP Brians-1
(UHPP-C)
• Acute patients unit. Patients with serious psychotic condition
or very disturbed. It is attempted that they stay two weeks at
the most and are subsequently transferred to the subacute
patients unit.
• Subacute patients unit. Patients with a productive psychotic
condition but without special handling problems. Patients may
stay several months at it, depending on the type and duration
of the measure.
• Medium-long stay unit.
• Unit of transit to community. It prepares the transit to the community of patients subject to a security measure.
Prison Psychiatric Rehabilitation Unit of CP
Brians–2 (URPP)
Chronic patients with a rehabilitation profile and without serious
behavioural disorders.
• Crisis observation unit.
• Intensive rehabilitation unit for serious mental disorders.
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