Details
Legal instruments & key provisions
| Legal instrument | Key provision |
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| Prison Act, Ordinance on Prisons, Swedish Prison and Probation Service | The regulations and general advice do not contain any information on the geographical location of detainees. According to the SPPS general advice on placements in Remand Prisons, detainees should normally be placed in a Remand Prison located in, or near, the place where the legal proceedings are to take place. This applies unless placement in another Remand Prison is needed for security or occupancy reason. |
| Prison and Probation Services (Kriminalvården) | Swedish Prisons are divided into three security classes. Security class one is the highest security class and refers to Prisons equipped to handle high-risk detainees. These are closed facilities. Security class two refers to facilities that also are closed but have a generally lower level of security than the Prisons in security class one. Prisons within this category may have different degrees and forms of monitoring and control. The Prisons referred to as security class three do not have escape barriers and can be called open detention regimes. |
NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS
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