Table of contents
Presentation ..................................................................................................................................
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Acronyms and abbreviations used ................................................................................................ 11
Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 13
Visits made .................................................................................................................................... 19
I. Short-term deprivation of liberty ............................................................................................... 29
II. Mean-term deprivation of liberty ............................................................................................... 57
II.1. Detention centres for foreign nationals .................................................................................................... 59
II.2. Military disciplinary establishments ......................................................................................................... 84
III. Long-term deprivation of liberty ................................................................................................ 87
III.1. Prisons answerable to the Office of the Secretary General for Penitentiary Institutions
(Secretary General for Penitentiary Institutions –“SGIP”) and the Department of Justice
of the Government of Catalonia .............................................................................................................. 89
III.2. Prison psychiatric hospitals ..................................................................................................................... 114
III.3. Centres for young offenders .................................................................................................................... 129
III.4 Social Healthcare Centres ...................................................................................................................... 143
IV. Special purpose places of deprivation of liberty ....................................................................... 157
IV.1. Hospital custody units.............................................................................................................................. 159
IV.2. Foreigner repatriation operations ............................................................................................................ 160
IV.3. Room for asylum and persons refused entry........................................................................................... 177
IV.4. Means of transport for transportation of persons in custody.................................................................... 180
Institutional training and dissemination activities ........................................................................... 185
Appendix: Processing of complaints for ill-treatment by the Ombudsman .................................... 189
Annexes......................................................................................................................................... 195
Index ............................................................................................................................................. 317
I.
Analytical index........................................................................................................................................ 319
II.
Index of charts, tables and photographs ................................................................................................. 323
III.
Geographical index ................................................................................................................................. 327
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