7 HOW DOES THE PRISON AND PROBATION SERVICE WORK WITH ISOLATION-BREAKING MEASURES? Table 2. Isolation-breaking measures for all inmates in in remand All inmates in remand Total number of inmates With restrictions Without restrictions 2016 2017 2018 2016 2017 2018 4,927 5,470 6,089 4,402 4,321 4,902 27 % 30 % 29 % 72 % 73 % 70 % 14 % 16 % 17 % 69 % 68 % 67 % All isolation-breaking measures Inmates with measures of 2 hours or more Isolation-breaking measures with human contact Inmates with measures of 2 hours or more The information is taken from the Prison and Probation Service’s annual report 2018 p. 136. Table 2 shows that between 2016–2018 there was a marginal increase in the proportion of inmates with restrictions3 who received isolation-breaking measures of two hours or more per day, from 27 per cent in 2016 to 29 per cent in 2018. In this context, it should be noted that during the same period there was an increase in the number of inmates held on remand; in 2016 there were 4,927 inmates with restrictions and the corresponding figure in 2018 was 6,089. With regard to isolation-breaking measures involving human contact, the figures are significantly worse. In the years in question, there was a clear increase in the proportion of inmates with restrictions who received this type of isolation-breaking measure for two hours or more per day. The increase was from 14 per cent in 2016 to 17 per cent in 2018. The Prison and Probation Service’s suveys show that in 2018, 83 per cent of inmates with restrictions did not receive isolation-breaking measures 3 The group includes, in addition to inmates with restrictions, also inmates who are segregated. to this extent and as such were – according to the international definition – held in conditions amounting to solitary confinement. The Prison and Probation Service also reports isolation-breaking measures for inmates without restrictions, in other words the group of According to surveys inmates who have the right to associate with other in- in 2018, 83 per cent of mates during the day (see those held on remand chap. 2 § 5 of HäL). Despi- with restrictions were te the fact that inmates held in conditions without restrictions have amounting to solitary such a right, it appears confinement from the Prison and Probation Service’s report that in 2018, 33 per cent of inmates did not receive isolation-breaking measures that involve human contact for two hours or more per day. In other words, they were held in conditions amounting to solitary confinement. – 38 –