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Legal instruments & key provisions
Legal instrument | Key provision |
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General Penitentiary Law (Ley General Penitenciaria) | Spanish law does not contain any prevision about the size of prison cells, and only provides that the cells are for single occupancy and must have enough space to make them habitable. |
NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS
Year | Recommendation | Report |
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2016 | In a non-formal recommendation the NPM stated that the prison administrations should adopt the necessary measures in order to achieve said “single-cell principle". | Report details |
2019 | The General Secretary of Penitentiary Institutions must regulate through a new Instruction the video-surveillance systems, which include, among other issues, the time and the cases in which the images captured must be kept, internal audits regarding the effectiveness, relevance and proportionality of the cameras, as well as sound recording in the places deemed necessary. | Report details |