AIDS - Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

CGP - Penitentiary Police Corps (Corpo da Guarda Prisional)

CPT - European Committee for the Prevention of Torture

DGPJ - General Directorate for Justice Policy (Direção-Geral da Política de Justiça)

DGRSP - General Directorate of Reintegration and Prison Services (Direção-Geral de Reinserção e Serviços Prisionais)

GISP - Prison Security Intervention Group (Grupo de Intervenção e Segurança Prisional)

HIV - Human immunodeficiency virus

LGBTI - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex

MNP - National Prevention Mechanism

NGO - Non-Governmental Organisation

OPCAT - Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture

PEP - Personal educational project (Projeto Educativo Pessoal)

RNR - Risk, Needs, Responsitivity

SNS - National Health Service (Serviço Nacional de Saúde)

SPACE I - European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics

SPT - Sub-committee for the prevention of torture

STD - Sexually transmitted disease/infection (STD/STI)

UNCAT - United Nations Convention against Torture

UNDP - United Nations Development Programme