APPENDIX Dnr O 7-2018 Page 11 (15) The representatives of the Prison and Probation Service stated that the national surveys of the use of isolation-breaking measures in remand prisons carried out by the agency include all inmates. Inmates placed in an association place within an association department are reported in the category inmates without restrictions. The category inmates with restrictions, in addition to inmates with restrictions, also includes inmates with a decision to be placed in segregation, inmates placed in an association place not located within an association department as well as inmates segregated with no basis in law. “Generalisable surveys” means that the result refers to the total, however there are no surveys for specific details, for example what the result may mean for a specific remand prison. The surveys carried out in 2015–2017 are based on the same criteria and are comparable. The surveys carried out in 2014 and earlier are based on other criteria and are therefore not comparable in the same way. However, a preliminary study has found that none of the surveys are sufficiently adequate to be used at the local level, nor to make comparisons nationally. The Prison and Probation Service wants to change this and it has an ongoing project to develop and introduce a central support system for the use of isolation-breaking measures. The Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman emphasised that the basis for the Prison and Probation Service's 2020 budget states that work on the use of isolationbreaking measures will not be prioritised, and she then asked if this also means that this issue will not be prioritised during 2019. The representatives of the Prison and Probation Service stated that within the agency, priority is currently given to projects relating to the support system for the calculation of sentences and the number of inmates. Previous experience of developing such support systems shows that, as a reasonable estimate, it will take approximately five years from the start of the work until there is support system in place that makes it possible to measure the use of isolation-breaking measures. Unfortunately, there are no synergy effects regarding other ongoing support system projects, as the Prison and Probation Service’s registration system (KVR) is a complicated system. The cooperation that exists with the Prosecution Authority to try to develop the statistics regarding remand orders and restrictions is based on already existing statistical data, and there is therefore no need to build any new support system. This means that the deprioritising of isolation-breaking measures leads to a delay in the work of starting to develop a support system for this issue. The Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman stated that it is extremely serious and very unsatisfactory that the Prison and Probation Service's existing national surveys of the use of isolation-breaking measures are unreliable, and are made in such a way that it is not possible to see in which direction the development is going. It must be difficult to use the surveys in one's own operation, but is also – 77 – B