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Legal instruments & key provisions
Legal instrument | Key provision |
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Imprisonment Act (Vankeuslaki/Fängelselag) | A prisoner may be imposed a disciplinary punishment for a disciplinary infraction and solitary confinement for at most ten days is the last resort of forms of disciplinary punishment. Solitary confinement includes a restriction of the possession of property and contacts, the use of library, the following of radio and tv programmes as well as of hobbies and free-time activities. |
NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS
Year | Recommendation | Report |
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2016 | The NPM did not consider it appropriate that prisoners are held in isolation cells merely for poor behaviour when they do not pose a concrete threat to order in the prison. The NPM pointed out that the conditions in isolation cells were inappropriate for the enforcement of disciplinary solitary confinement or the segregation of a prisoner pending the investigation of a disciplinary fraction. | Report details |