National Preventive Mechanism recommends improvement of detention conditions in courts and police facilities

 The National Preventive Mechanism has issued four recommendations aimed at improving conditions of detention in courts and police facilities. These recommendations follow the visits to the the Local Instance of Benavente of the Judicial Court of Santarém, the Central Instance of Judicial Court of Santarém, the Police Station of Santarém of Public Security Police and the Central Instance of Judicial…

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The National Preventive Mechanism addressed a recommendation to the General Director of Reintegration and Prison Services

Following the visit to the prison facility of Castelo Branco on December 29th, 2016, the National Preventive Mechanism issued a recommendation to the General Director of Reintegration and Prison Services, on which it was recommended the adoption of measures in order to improve the cells conditions and the disciplinary area. It was also recommended that the access to the…

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