CPT/Inf (2007) 28 Report to the Spanish Government on the visit to Spain carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 22 July to 1 August 2003 The Spanish Government has requested the publication of this report and of its response. The Government's response is set out in document CPT/Inf (2007) 29. Strasbourg, 10 July 2007 - 3 - CONTENTS Copy of the letter transmitting the CPT’s report.................................................................................. 7 I. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................9 A. Dates of the visit and composition of the delegation ............................................................. 9 B. Establishments visited............................................................................................................ 10 C. Cooperation between the CPT and the Spanish authorities............................................... 11 II. FACTS FOUND DURING THE VISIT AND ACTION PROPOSED.............................. 12 A. Law enforcement agency establishments ............................................................................. 12 1. Preliminary remarks........................................................................................................ 12 2. Ill-treatment..................................................................................................................... 13 3. Safeguards against ill-treatment...................................................................................... 15 a. introduction............................................................................................................ 15 b. access to a lawyer and notification of custody ...................................................... 15 c. access to a doctor................................................................................................... 17 d. information on rights ............................................................................................. 18 e. custody records ...................................................................................................... 18 f. inspections ............................................................................................................. 19 4. Conditions of detention................................................................................................... 19 5. Immigration detainees..................................................................................................... 22 a. introduction............................................................................................................ 22 b. safeguards against ill-treatment ............................................................................. 23 c. conditions of detention in short-term ad hoc detention facilities .......................... 26 d. conditions of detention in long-term detention facilities....................................... 27 i. preliminary remarks..................................................................................... 27 ii. living conditions ........................................................................................... 27 iii. activities ....................................................................................................... 29 iv. health care.................................................................................................... 29 v. staff............................................................................................................... 30 vi. other issues................................................................................................... 31 - 4 - B. Prisons ..................................................................................................................................... 33 1. Preliminary remarks........................................................................................................ 33 2. Ill-treatment..................................................................................................................... 33 3. Prisoners subject to special regimes................................................................................ 34 a. prisoners considered to be “unadapted to an ordinary prison regime” or “dangerous” ........................................................................................................... 34 b. prisoners separated from the general prison population for their own protection ......................................................................................... 36 4. Conditions of detention................................................................................................... 37 a. material conditions ................................................................................................ 37 b. regime activities..................................................................................................... 38 5. Health-care services ........................................................................................................ 39 6. Prisoners with drug-related problems ............................................................................. 41 a. introduction............................................................................................................ 41 b. programmes for prisoners with drug-related problems in the establishments visited .................................................................................. 41 7. Other issues ..................................................................................................................... 43 C. Penitentiary mental health-care facilities............................................................................. 45 1. Preliminary remarks........................................................................................................ 45 2. Ill-treatment..................................................................................................................... 46 3. Living conditions of patients........................................................................................... 46 4. Treatment ........................................................................................................................ 48 5. Restraint and seclusion.................................................................................................... 49 6. Staff resources................................................................................................................. 50 7. Suicide prevention........................................................................................................... 51 8. Safeguards....................................................................................................................... 52 a. placement and discharge........................................................................................ 52 b. other safeguards..................................................................................................... 54 - 5 - D. Detention facilities for children............................................................................................. 55 1. Preliminary remarks........................................................................................................ 55 2. Ill-treatment..................................................................................................................... 56 3. Nivaria Closed Detention Centre for Children................................................................ 56 4. Centres for unaccompanied foreign minors .................................................................... 58 a. living conditions .................................................................................................... 58 b. health care.............................................................................................................. 59 c. staff issues.............................................................................................................. 60 III. RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSIONS ..................................................................... 61 APPENDIX I: LIST OF THE CPT’S RECOMMENDATIONS, COMMENTS AND REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION.................................................. 67 APPENDIX II: LIST OF THE AUTHORITIES AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS WITH WHICH THE CPT’S DELEGATION HELD CONSULTATIONS..................... 79 - 7 - Copy of the letter transmitting the CPT’s report Strasbourg, 16 March 2004 Dear Sir, 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 Government of Spain drawn up by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) following its visit to Spain from 22 July to 1 August 2003. The report was adopted by the CPT at its 53rd meeting, held from 1 to 5 March 2004. I would draw your attention in particular to paragraph 181 of the report, in which the CPT requests the Spanish authorities to provide within six months a response setting out the action taken upon its visit report. The CPT would ask, in the event of the response being forwarded in Spanish, that it be accompanied by an English or French translation. It would be most helpful if the Spanish authorities could