14 Amendments of Maria Lidia SENRA RODRÍGUEZ related to 2015/2062(INI)
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas imprisonment is a particularly inappropriate situation in which to place certain vulnerable individuals, such as minors and people suffering from mental and psychiatric disturbancesserious illness or incapacity, and in general is not conducive to people’s mental and physical health;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas alternative sanctions should be prioritised in the case of prisoners who do not present a ser, when prison is being considered as an option, priority should be given to alternative sanctiouns danger to society, thus keeping themd formulas which keep people in an open environment and givinge them better access to social services, care and reintegration;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas, according to Council of Europe figures for 2014, on average 20% of prisoners in European prisons are foreigners and whereas they are most often remanded in custody because of the greatersupposed risk of absconding associated with them;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas continuous training of prison staff and an increase in staffing levels among them areis essential to ensure good detention conditions in prisons;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas violence in prisons is often associated with overcrowding and deplorable detention conditions, the often unjustified and arbitrary tightening up of repressive measures, deplorable detention conditions and a lack of training and qualified staff;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the suicide rate and the rates of illness, deaths in unclear circumstances and cases of drug addiction in prisons in the European Union isare particularly alarming;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Urges the abolition of solitary confinement and the closed or isolation system in prisons; calls for all possible mechanisms to be put in place to prevent cases of ill treatment of prisoners and to put an end to the abuses seen in detention procedures;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Expresses its concern about and urges the immediate cessation of the measures involved in the application in Spain of the FIES prison-monitoring system (Ficheros de Internos de Especial Seguimiento), which was declared illegal in 2009 by Spain’s own Supreme Court for infringing the rights of prisoners but is still in operation today;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Points out that all prisoners have a right to serve their sentences in prisons as close as possible to their places of residence; condemns the prison dispersal policy applied by a number of states because it represents an added punishment for prisoners’ families, who are forced to travel much further than would have been necessary in order to visit prisoners; urges that measures be put in place to allow all prisoners being detained far from their homes to be moved closer;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Deplores the fact that overcrowding of prisons, which is very common in Europe’s prisons, particularly in Spain, Greece, France, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia and Romania, in many cases has a serious impact on the safety of prison staff and prisoners, but also with regard to the activities made available, medical care and monitoring of prisoners;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that increasing prisons’ capacity is not the sole solution to overcrowdingan appropriate solution, as the prison population tends to rise at the same rate as prison capacity; calls nonetheless on Member States to allocate appropriate resources to refurbishment and modernisation of prisons in order to protect the rights of prisoners; recalls that the Commission recently mentioned the possibility of drawing on the Structural Funds of the European Union;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for the provision of healthcare to all prisoners, delivered by qualified staff, to be guaranteed; expresses its concern about the difficulties experienced by prisoners in a number of states in accessing a doctor whom they can trust, being transferred to a high- quality medical centre or accessing an open regime despite suffering from serious illnesses;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Considers that appropriate attention should be paid to the gender- specific needs of female prisoners, with regard to both healthcare and any other aspects; expresses its concern about the requisite attention not being paid to female prisoners, frequently on the pretext that women are a minority group in prisons;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Urges the guaranteeing of full rights to prisoners who are members of the LGBTIQ group;