Long-term Deprivation of Liberty In addition, whenever there are incidents with injuries, the images are generally extracted and kept apart, but are only sent to court if it is so requested. On the contrary, the criterion of the Ombudsman Institution is that, in case of this type of incident, the recordings should always be sent to court ex officio. In case of incidents with 79. Module 3 of the prison of Ocaña II (Toledo) did not have intercoms or sound systems for calling inside the cells, contrary to the provisions of paragraphs 336 of the 2010 Annual Report and 121 of the 2011 Annual Report, and such change is pending implementation, which should be carried out as soon as possible. As regards the prison of Alcala de Guadaira (Seville), it was reported that the instal­ lation of the sound systems for calling from the cells would be executed when budget availability permits. Sound systems for calling 80. As regards the information on rights and duties which are provided to inmates upon admission, during the visit to the women’s prison of Barcelona it was detected that informative sheets were available on basic issues regarding the stay at such center, in Spanish, Catalan, English and French, but not in other lan­ guages which are common among female inmates, which should be remedied. On the other hand, although other inmates normally act as interpreters and there is usually no problem with communication, prisons should have a system for si­ multaneous interpretation for those cases when it is necessary. There should be a system 81. As regards medical assistance, the external experts that were part of the vis­ it teams were able to check that, in general and from a technical point of view, its quality was correct. A positive mention should be made of the high degree of satisfaction of the inmates –both male and female– interviewed at the prison of Alava and the women’s prison of Barcelona with the professional work carried out by the healthcare team in general and, particularly, as referred to the latter, a very favorable opinion of the mothers regarding the pediatrician. There was only one complaint from a female inmate, in relation to the medical assistance re­ ceived on the previous night. However, once the medical-forensic expert, who was part of the visit team, had examined said inmate and her medical history, the action taken by the healthcare team was deemed correct. Adequate medical 82. In the Moscow Declaration of 2003, the World Health Organization recom­ mended for public health services to establish close links with the prison health services, or to be directly integrated with them. Along the same lines, Law 16/2003, of 28 May, on the cohesion and quality of the Spanish National Health Service, provided for the prison health services to be transferred to the Autono­ mous Regional Communities for their full inclusion in public health services. However, up to this day, the health services of the Basque Country prisons are the only ones in Spain where a transfer of the functions and services has been imple­ mented from the State authorities in healthcare matters to an autonomous re­ gional community, which this Institution was able to verify during the visit to the prison of Alava. Although the prison health THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN injuries the recordings must be sent to court ex officio should be installed for simultaneous interpretation assistance services have been transferred to the Autonomous Communities, only the Basque Country has implemented the transfer of competencies 83

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