Annual Report 2013 of the National Preventive Mechanism
Apart from these specialised resources, the infirmaries of CP Brians-1,
the CP for men of Barcelona and the CP for women of Barcelona have
a specific psychiatric area attended also by personnel of St. John of
God. They assist convicted mentally ill patients who cannot be handled
in the responsible unit of the prison and must be interned in the infirmary, but whose condition is not sufficiently serious for their custody
in a specialised unit.
In the penitentiary system of Catalonia, inmates are referred to a mental health treatment unit is made taking into account their psychiatric
state not their legal-procedural situation. Thus, persons under security
measures may be interned in the psychiatric infirmary of a CP or in
one of the specialised units, depending on the clinical criterion, while
convicts with psychiatric pathologies may stay either at one of such
units or at an ordinary unit with ambulatory treatment.
Two visits to prison psychiatric
hospitals in 2013
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147. In 2011, the NPM made the first visit to a place of deprivation
of liberty of this type, the HPP of Alicante, and, in 2013, the HPP of
Seville and UHPP-C (Barcelona) were visited. The former is located in
the complex of CP Seville I and the latter is within CP Brians 1 (Barcelona). All visits were multidisciplinary, with psychiatrists and psychologists forming part of the visiting team.
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