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Report to the Portuguese Government on the Visit to Portugal Carried CPT/Inf (2018) 6 Report to the Portuguese Government on the visit to Portugal carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 27 September to 7 October 2016 The Portuguese Government has requested the publication of this report and of its response. The response is set out in document CPT/Inf (2018) 7. Strasbourg, 27 January 2018 - 2 - CONTENTS Copy of the letter transmitting the CPT’s report............................................................................4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................................5 I. INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................9 A. Dates of the visit and composition of the delegation ..............................................................9 B. Establishments visited...............................................................................................................9 C. Consultations held by the delegation and co-operation encountered.................................10 D. National Preventive Mechanism ............................................................................................11 II. FACTS FOUND DURING THE VISIT AND ACTION PROPOSED ..............................12 A. Law enforcement agencies......................................................................................................12 1. Preliminary remarks ........................................................................................................12 2. Ill-treatment .....................................................................................................................13 3. Effective investigations of ill-treatment ..........................................................................16 4. Safeguards against ill-treatment ......................................................................................20 5. Conditions of detention ...................................................................................................22 B. Prison establishments .............................................................................................................24 1. Preliminary remarks ........................................................................................................24 a. recent developments...............................................................................................24 b. prisons visited.........................................................................................................25 2. Ill-treatment .....................................................................................................................26 3. Conditions of detention ...................................................................................................30 a. material conditions .................................................................................................30 b. regime.....................................................................................................................33 4. Staff matters.....................................................................................................................35 5. Health care services .........................................................................................................36 a. introduction ............................................................................................................36 b. staff and facilities ...................................................................................................37 - 3 - c. medical screening on admission and recording of injuries ....................................39 d. medical confidentiality...........................................................................................40 e. use of chemical restraint in prisons........................................................................41 f. deaths in prison and prevention of suicide (and self-harm) ...................................41 6. Other issues......................................................................................................................43 a. discipline ................................................................................................................43 b. contact with the outside world ...............................................................................46 c. complaints and inspection procedures ...................................................................47 7. Monsanto High Security Prison.......................................................................................47 C. Forensic psychiatric institutions under the Directorate General for Prisons and Rehabilitation Services (DGPRS) ..........................................................................................54 1. Preliminary remarks ........................................................................................................54 2. Ill-treatment .....................................................................................................................55 3. Patients’ living conditions and activities .........................................................................56 a. psychiatric unit of Caxias Prison Hospital .............................................................56 b. Psychiatric Hospital of Santa Cruz do Bispo Prison..............................................58 4. Treatment.........................................................................................................................59 5. Staff .................................................................................................................................60 a. psychiatric unit of Caxias Prison Hospital .............................................................60 b. psychiatric Hospital of Santa Cruz do Bispo Prison ..............................................61 6. Seclusion and means of restraint .....................................................................................63 a. guidelines on the use of restraint............................................................................63 b. psychiatric unit of Caxias Prison Hospital .............................................................63 c. Psychiatric Hospital of Santa Cruz do Bispo Prison..............................................64 7. Safeguards .......................................................................................................................67 a. placement and discharge ........................................................................................67 b. safeguards during placement..................................................................................67 Appendix: List of the national authorities and non-governmental organisations with which the delegation held consultations .......................................................................69 - 4 - Copy of the letter transmitting the CPT’s report Ms Vera Ávila Head of the Human Rights Unit DGPE - Directorate-General for External Policy Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal Palácio das Necessidades Largo do Rilvas 1399-030 Lisboa Codex Portugal Strasbourg, 20 March 2017 Dear Ms Ávila, In pursuance of Article 10, paragraph 1, of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, I enclose herewith the report to the Portuguese Government drawn up by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) following its visit to Portugal from 27 September to 7 October 2016. The report was adopted by the CPT at its 92nd meeting, held from 6 to 10 March 2017. The various recommendations, comments and requests for information formulated by the CPT are highlighted in bold in the body of the report. As regards more particularly the CPT’s recommendations, having regard to Article 10, paragraph 1, of the Convention, the Committee requests the Portuguese authorities to provide within six months a response giving a full account of action taken to implement them. The CPT trusts that it will also be possible for the Portuguese authorities to provide, in the above- mentioned response, reactions to the comments and requests for information formulated in this report. As regards the recommendations in paragraphs 45, 49, 50, 95 and 128 the CPT requests a response within two months. I am at your entire disposal if you have any questions concerning either the CPT’s report or the future procedure. Yours sincerely, Mykola Gnatovskyy President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 5 - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the course of the 2016 periodic visit, the CPT’s delegation reviewed the treatment of persons detained by law enforcement agencies and examined the system of investigating allegations of ill- treatment by law enforcement officials. The delegation also visited a number of prisons, focusing on the conditions of detention and the treatment of various categories of prisoners notably those held on remand and in disciplinary segregation as well as juveniles and vulnerable prisoners. The situation of patients held in two forensic psychiatric units was also examined. The co-operation received by the delegation throughout the visit was, on the whole, excellent. However, the principle of co-operation set out in Article
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