Medical treatment is provided when necessary. Financial support is given to families for transportation, food, and medicine. Prison visits are carried out together with the medical doctor and psychologist of the centre. During these visits, treatment is offered to prisoners who have suffered torture and request treatment. Among the most common physical torture methods registered in the northern border area of Tamaulipas are blows with the palm of the hand to the ear, carried out so that no marks are left on the victim, use of plastic bags over the head to make the victim suffocate, burning with cigarettes, and handcuffing to cell bars for hours.
Torture persists within the police force.
Documentation Monitoring is carried out of all torture cases in the northern border region of Tamaulipas. The centre contributes to the publication Border Lines of Alberquerque NM and publishes a monthly journal covering analyses and investigations by the centre. The latter is distributed in USA and Europe. Staff Staff comprises two medical doctors, one specialist in criminology, one traumatologist, one psychologist, and one social worker.