Annual Report 2016 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture
IV.3.3. Young offender institutions
219. According to a study drawn up by the National Statistics Institute (INE) and published on 24
September 2016, 13,981 final judgments were recorded during 2015 at the Register of Criminal
Liability of Minors, representing 7.1% less than the previous year.
The rate of minors between 14 and 17 years old, convicted for every 1,000 inhabitants in the
same age group, was 7.9 compared to the 8.7 recorded the previous year. Based on the number
and type of criminal offences committed by minors, 24,005 were recorded in 2015, 6.7% less
than the previous year. By gender, male minors committed 81.3% of these criminal offences and
women 18.7%.
During 2015, judges adopted 23,041 measures, representing a 5.9% decrease with
respect to the previous year. The most frequently adopted measures were probation (40% of the
total), community service (16.9%) and socio-educational tasks (11.2%).
Based on the offender’s nationality, committal to closed and semi-open facilities were more
common amongst foreign minors (4.7.% and 14.7% of the total, respectively) than amongst Spanish
minors (1.4% and 10.1%). On the other hand, measures involving socio-educational tasks and
community service are imposed less frequently on foreign minors (8.1% and 14.8% of the total,
respectively, over 12.1% and 17.6% amongst Spanish minors).
220. The capacity of each facility visited in 2016 and the number of places occupied on the
days we visited are shown in the table below:
Table 36. Capacity and occupancy of Young Offender Institutions visited
Facilities visited
San Francisco de Asís-La Biznaga
Young Offender Institution
(Málaga)
Zambrana Young Offender
Institution (Valladolid)
Maliaño Juvenile SocioEducational Facility (Cantabria)
El Madroño Facility for the
Enforcement of Court Orders
(Madrid)
148
Capacity
Occupancy at the
time of the visit
15
15
73
71
18
16
15
8
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