Prison Rules (Reglamento Penitentciario) | General provison on right of detainees to have their lives, integrity and health safeguarded by the administration, without, in any case, being subjected to torture, mistreatment by word or deed, or being subjected to unnecessary rigour when applying the law |
Ill-treatment complaints protocol (Protocolo denuncias malos tratos) | Three types of measures: first, Prison Directors are ordered that when they learn of facts that could be criminal, they must urgently inform the judge on duty. Second, the injury reports must be sent to that judge, even when injuries are not serious and though there are no observable injuries when an inmate claims to have been mistreated. Third, in order to manage complaints of mistreatment, based on the concept of mistreatment established in the Convention against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (United Nations Assembly) an Ill-treatment complaints protocol is set |
General Penitentiary Law (Ley General Penitenciaria) | Among the security measures are the observation of prisoners, prisoner counts, registers, interventions, cell changes, controls. For specific security reasons, a complete strip search can be authorised by the head of services. Proportional use of coercive methods such as physical force, rubber fenders, appropriate action aerosols and handcuffs are authorised when there is no other less burdensome way. |