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Content
Preface ....................................................................................................................................................3
Introduction ..........................................................................................................................................7
The OPCAT unit .................................................................................................................... 9
The Opcat unit...............................................................................................................................10
The terms torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment .......................................10
The Convention on Torture and OPCAT.............................................................................10
Preventive work ......................................................................................................................11
OPCAT in Sweden ..................................................................................................................11
The international examining bodies ....................................................................................13
A Nordic NPM network ........................................................................................................13
OPCAT celebrated 10 years ...................................................................................................13
The aim of this report ..................................................................................................................14
OPCAT inspections 2015–2017 .......................................................................................... 15
OPCAT inspections ......................................................................................................................16
Working method ....................................................................................................................16
Locations where individuals are deprived their liberty ....................................................17
Inspections carried out 2015–2017 ......................................................................................18
Geographical spread of inspections 2015–2017 .................................................................19
General observations in connection with inspections ....................................................... 21
Police custody facilities ................................................................................................................22
The police custody facility guard’s training .........................................................................22
Shortcomings in the physical environment ........................................................................23
Access to health and medical care ........................................................................................23
Right to clothes .......................................................................................................................24
Temporary police custody facilities .....................................................................................25
Conclusions on police custody facilities ..............................................................................25
Remand prisons and prison establishments .............................................................................26
Isolation of persons held on remand ...................................................................................27
Reducing isolation ..................................................................................................................28
Temporary remand prisons ...................................................................................................28
Migration detainees ................................................................................................................29
Follow-up of previous inspections .......................................................................................30
Conclusions regarding remand prisons and prison establishments ................................32
Youth facilities ...............................................................................................................................33
Care in isolation and the option of keeping an inmate in isolation .................................33
”Escapees” ................................................................................................................................35
Supervision of inmates ...........................................................................................................35