C APPENDIX Dnr O 7-2018 Page 13 (21) added to the department to work with isolation-breaking efforts. However, this position was used by other departments when they lacked staff. In the opinion of the staff at the restriction department, they essentially only managed to hold have time for nothing more than holding intake interviews with new inmates and drawing up plans for the inmates for their time held on remand. Other inspections have also revealed that staff working in association departments and with isolation-breaking measures are used for other tasks, and that the general level of staffing is insufficient in achieving the national targets for isolationbreaking measures.31 The Prison and Probation Service needs to comprehensively deal with the issues of premises and staffing In my opinion, the Prison and Probation Service needs to comprehensively solve the problems with its premises and staffing levels. The agency must ensure that existing, as well as newly produced, remand prisons have sufficient premises for association and the use of isolation-breaking measures, and that staffing levels are sufficient for the remand prisons to be able to offer inmates association and isolation-breaking measures. Similar opinions were also expressed by the Remand Prison and Restriction Government Inquiry. In its report Fewer in remand prison and reduced isolation, the inquiry proposes that the Prison and Probation Service should review the premises at all of the agency's remand prisons in order to ensure one communal space per 15 inmates.32 Furthermore, proposals were also made that, at departments which are not association departments, there should be one full-time member of staff per 15 inmates tasked with working with isolation-breaking measures. The inquiry's proposals are yet to be implemented. I have stated above that the Prison and Probation Service has continued to have great difficulty in satisfying inmates' right of association with other inmates. These difficulties are caused by the fact that several of the Prison and Probation Service's remand prisons are designed to keep inmates segregated instead of in association, and by the fact that there is an insufficient level of staff tasked with working in communal spaces. In my opinion, the Prison and Probation Service deserves very serious criticism for the continued shortcomings in these respects. These are shortcomings which lead to restrictions of a fundamental right for inmates. 31 Such information emerged during the inspections of Karlskrona and Trelleborg remand prisons. See the Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s reports dnr O 25-2019 p. 4 and dnr O 28-2019 p. 4. 32 SOU 2016:52 pp. 140–142. – 94 –