Key websites¶

• “General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions”.

• “Ombudsman (Defensor del Pueblo)”.

Legal texts¶

• “Spanish Constitution of 1978” (in Spanish).

• “Penal Code“ (in Spanish).

• “Penitentiary Law“ (in Spanish).

• “Prison Regulations“ (in Spanish).

Official sources¶

• Ombudsman, “Annual Report and Court Cases 2017, Volume I”, 2018.

• “Council of Europe anti-torture committee acknowledges some positive steps in Spain, but calls for ending fixation in prisons and juvenile centres”, 2017.

• European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, “Report to the Spanish government on the visit to Spain carried out in 2016”, 2017.

• General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions, “Annual Report 2016” (in Spanish).

• Council of Europe, “Report on the Organisation of health care services in prisons in European member states”.

• Ministry for the Interior, “National action plan for the prevention of violent radicalisation” (in Spanish).

• Ombudsman, “Annual Report 2016” (in Spanish).

NGO and International Organisation reports¶

• Assembly for the Prevention of Torture, “Torture in the Spanish State in 2017”, 7 June 2018 (in Spanish).

• The Association for Human Rights of Andalusia, “Prison Health”, 2016 (in Spanish).

Academic Articles¶

• Sonia Gómez Ramírez, “Women in prison: social reintegration via reception centres, 2016 (in Spanish).

• José Luis de la Cuesta et Isodoro Blanco, “The Spanish Penitentiary system” (in Spanish).

• Ángel Colmenar Launes,”The disciplinary regime and process in the Spanish system”, National University for distance learning, 2015 (in Spanish).