Detention monitoring
rity units have been prepared. The Commission was nevertheless
critical of the practice of using additional restraints for highly agitated individuals in security cells. The Commission requested that the
facility ceases the use of such – in its view unnecessary – restraining
measures and that, without exception, any further use thereof be
officially recorded and accompanied by medical surveillance. Lastly,
the Commission expressed its regret that no privacy room had been
set up for long-term detainees.
igh Security Unit of the Lenzburg Correctional Facility
H
(Aargau)7
During its follow-up visit in August 2017 at the Lenzburg Correctional Facility, the Commission put particular attention to the detention conditions of detainees held in high security units. The Commission specifically assessed the criteria for ordering a placement in
such units as well as the procedural aspects. Taking into consideration its previous recommendations, the Commission reiterated its
position that the ordering of solitary confinement should be discontinued in cases where it is grounded solely on a risk of flight.8 With
regard to the review of continued detention in solitary confinement,
the Commission recommended that the measure should be reviewed at least every three months in accordance with international
law. Lastly, the Commission found that the internal regulations on
access to the telephone remained too restrictive in the facility. The
Commission thus suggested that the rules in question be eased.
Letter to the Government Council of the Canton of Aargau on the follow-up visit of the National Commission for the
Prevention of Torture to the Lenzburg Correctional Facility, 29 August 2017, available online at: https://www.nkvf.admin.
ch/dam/data/nkvf/Berichte/2017/lenzburg/feedbackschreiben-lenzburg.pdf (in German).
7
NCPT Activity Report 2013, pp. 44ff.
8
Activity Report NCPT 2017
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