Porto

Unidade Habitacional de Santo António (CIT-UHSA))

Portugal

Status

In use

2023

Type: Immigration detention centre (Administrative)

Custodial Authority: SEF (Servicio De Estrangeiros e Fronteiras)

Management: Jesuit Refugees Services (Private Not-For-Profit)

Detains: Asylum seekers (administrative), Families, Adult women, Adult men, Accompanied minors, Undocumented migrants (administrative)

Capacity Conditions complaints? Reported population
27
YES

2017

No Data
Portugal

694

Migration Detainee Entries

1,615

Apprehensions of Non-Citizens

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FACILITY NAMES
Unidade Habitacional de Santo António (CIT-UHSA))
Location

Country: Portugal

City & Region: Porto, Europe

Latitude, Longitude: 41.149968, -8.6102426

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status

Status In use

2023

Status In use

2022

Status Last documented use

2017

Status In use

2016

Status In use

2009
Facility type

Category Filter Administrative

Type Immigration detention centre

2017

Category Filter Administrative

Type Immigration detention centre

2009
National typology

Name Temporary Accommodation Centre (Centro de instalação temporária ou espaço equiparado é autorizado)

2017
Management

Name Jesuit Refugees Services

Type Private Not-For-Profit

2017

Name Immigration and Borders Service

Type Governmental

2017
Custodial Authorities

Agency SEF (Servicio De Estrangeiros e Fronteiras)

Ministry Ministry of Interior

Ministry Typology Interior or Home Affairs

2017
Outsourced services and non-state actors

Provider Jesuit Refugees Services

Service Management

2017

Provider Jesuit Refugees Services

Service Legal counselling

2017

Provider Jesuit Refugees Services

Service Social services

2017

Provider International Organization for Migration

Service Education or training

2017
Operating Period

Year of Entry 2006

DETAINEES

Demographics

Name Families

2017

Name Adult women

2017

Name Adult men

2017

Name Accompanied minors

2017
Categories of detainees

Name Asylum seekers (administrative)

2017

Name Undocumented migrants (administrative)

2017

SIZE & POPULATION

Capacity (specialised migration-related facility)

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 27

2023

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 30

2022

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 36

2015

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 36

2007
Total Migration Detainees: Entries + Remaining from Previous Year

Number 184

2016

Number 153

2015

LENGTH OF DETENTION

Detention Timeframe (long, medium, short)

Length Long-term (more than 20 days)

2017

OUTCOMES

CONDITIONS

Overall Inspection Score

Minimum Standards (“Good,” “Acceptable,” or “Meets Standards”)

2017
Inadequate conditions

Recreation

2017

CARCERAL INDICATORS

External Security Regime

Secure

2017

Secure

2009
Armed External Guards

Yes

2017

STAFF

SEGREGATION

Gender Segregation

Yes

2017
Age Segregation

Yes

2017
Family Segregation

Yes

2017

CELLS

COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES

HEALTH

MONITORING & ACCESS

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