Long-term deprivation of liberty
Conduct Normalisation Programme
97. During our visit to CP Jaén we were told that the programme gathered in
SGIP Instruction 15/2011 was being carried out in ward 10, aimed at
intervening with “inmates evidencing an antisocial attitude and conduct,
in order to achieve their positive adaptation, by normalising their
behaviour and encouraging pro-social values”.
With this in mind, inmates are assigned to a level 1 or basic rehabilitation
ward [“modulo de respeto”]. Using an educational-therapeutic approach,
the aim is to reassign the inmate to another stricter rehabilitation ward and, if
this is not possible, to transfer him/her to another CP.
Rehabilitation wards are internal separation units inside the CP, aimed at
“achieving harmonious co-existence and utmost respect amongst residents”.
The level applied is the lowest of the three rehabilitation wards foreseen in
SGIP Instruction 18/2011.
98. Nevertheless, in order for the Programme to be carried out as foreseen in
the Instruction, there is insufficient staff assigned to this department.
99. Nor are there sufficient activities arranged in the ward, contradicting the
basic objective of the Instruction, which is none other than to “eradicate
inmate inactivity in order to gradually cover their important needs”.
100. Although these ward residents are classified as second degree, they
may in no case coincide with other inmates from other departments; this
reinforces the feeling that they are in a closed regime ward.
101. The installations accommodating these department inmates were
originally intended for FIES inmates, and their architectural design evidences
this (such as a dividing wall between the cell windows and the ward
courtyard); this is incompatible with the alleged “stimulating conditions” and
“positive reinforcement” gathered in the Instruction.
102. Basically, it looks more like a residential department to avoid conflicts,
rather than a specific treatment programme; security or the inmate’s inability
to fit into another department seem to prevail, as this type of ward is used to
relocate inmates who have little time left on their sentence and whose conduct
could be detrimental to regimental development in other wards. In fact, only on
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