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Legal instruments & key provisions
| Legal instrument | Key provision |
|---|---|
| Remand Prisons Act | Detainees may receive visits to the extent that visiting can be conveniently arranged. However, a visit may be refused if it (1) may jeopardise security in a way that cannot be dealt with by a control measure such as monitoring of the visit or the visitor submitting to a body search or a superficial body inspection, (2) may counteract the detainee’s reintegration in society, or (3) may be harmful in some other way for the detainee or another person. Detainees may be in contact with another person through electronic communication to the extent that this can be conveniently arranged. However, electronic communication may be refused if it may jeopardise security in a way that cannot be dealt with by monitoring. |
NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM RECOMMENDATIONS
| Year | Recommendation | Report |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | […] In practice, the right to receive visitors had also been restricted by the fact that inmates had been placed in visiting rooms. Parliamentary Ombudsman Katarina Påhlsson pointed out that she has repeatedly emphasised that visits are a crucial element of a humane prison service. It is not acceptable that overcrowding or a lack of resources lead to restrictions in this regard. | Report details |
| 2022 | During the inspection of the prison in Täby, it turned out that the opportunities for inmates to receive visits to the prison were limited, partly because the visiting premises were also used for other purposes, and partly because the visiting hours were too few and that they were perceived as too short. Even during the inspection of the prison in Luleå, the possibilities for visiting were limited, among other things because the prison shares a visiting room with the remand prison. At the time of the inspection of the remand prison in Luleå, the two visiting rooms were occupied and there was therefore no possibility of receiving visits for either inmates in the prison or in the remand prison. One of the visiting rooms had been occupied on and off throughout the autumn of 2022. | Report details |