Contents
Contents --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2
Glossary ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6
Foreword ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11
Section 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13
The Contrôle Général’s Political Analyses for 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13
Opinions and Recommendations made Public ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13
The Recommendations contained in the Inspection Reports sent to Ministers ----------------------------------------- 18
Section 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64
Actions taken in 2013 in response to Opinions, Recommendations and Cases taken up by the Contrôle
Général ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64
Responses to Findings and Inspection Reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64
Actions Taken in Response to Two Emergency Recommendations -------------------------------------------------------- 66
Actions taken in response to the Opinion of 17th January 2013 concerning Unjustified Stays in Units for
Difficult Psychiatric Patients ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 69
Actions taken in response to less recent Recommendations, Opinions and Cases taken up ------------------------ 70
Actions taken in response to the Initiatives undertaken by the Contrôleur Général in order to Protect Prisoners
against Distribution of their Image without their Consent ------------------------------------------------------------------- 75
The Reform of the Act of 5th July 2011 concerning Psychiatric treatment without Consent ------------------------ 76
Actions taken in response to Inspections overall -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 78
Section 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 80
Why Do You Come So Late? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 80
Section 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 85
Assessment of the Application of the Prisons Act -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 85
Origins and Context --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 85
Respect for the Well-Being of the Person: Professional Practices that call for Change ------------------------------- 87
Access to information: How to overcome fears? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 92
Access to Citizenship Still in the Course of Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 95
Respect for Private Life: many a slip between cup and lip ------------------------------------------------------------------ 101
Access to Inter Partes Procedures and Remedies: Progress to be confirmed ------------------------------------------ 106
Access and Rights in relation to Healthcare: deliberately overlooked? ------------------------------------------------- 109
The Principle of Sentencing according to Defendants’ Individual Requirements: implementation thereof
weakened by the prisons administration ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 114
Conclusion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 125
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