| 2023 | The Ombudsman calls for consideration to be given to the possibility of involving sign language interpreting professionals in the development and implementation of such programmes and activities for the hearing impaired, facilitating the adaptation of this group to life in prison. Although it has been indicated by the Prison Administration that the Protocol for the Care of Persons with Disabilities in the Prison Environment already considers the possibility of using the available resources to facilitate special communications for these persons, the fact is that this protocol contemplates many and very varied types of disability, without delving into the specialities that each of these types may present in the prison environment. With regard to the measures taken to facilitate the re-education and social reintegration of persons with hearing disabilities, the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions has stated that, for each person, an individualized treatment programme is drawn up and the necessary means of support are provided to enable him or her to carry it out under the same conditions as the rest of the prison population. However, it does not specify what these means consist of. | Report details |