APPENDIX Dnr O 7-2018 the chance to associate with other inmates due to organisational reasons or for reasons an inmate cannot influence.18 Assessment In my work with this own-initiative inquiry, three main issues have taken shape. I raised, inter alia, these issues at the dialogue meeting with the representatives of the Prison and Probation Service. The three issues are 1. 2. 3. inmates’ right of association with other inmates measures to break the isolation of inmates the opportunity to follow the work on the use of isolation-breaking measures Inmates' right of association with other inmates The current situation Although inmates in remand prisons and prisons have the same basic rights to associate with other inmates, there is a very significant difference in the regimes between these two types of operations. For prisons, the Prison and Probation Service has adopted rules that clearly govern how long an inmate can be segregated from other inmates during night-time outs. An inmate in a prison with security class 1 or 2 can be locked in his cell during the period 19.00–8.00. In addition to the time for locking up and unlocking a cell block, an inmate cannot be locked up for more than twelve hours per day. Different rules apply for an inmate in a prison with security class 3, as he or she can be locked up in his or her cell block during the period 21.00–8:00. In addition to the times for locking and unlocking a cell block, an inmate cannot be locked up for more than ten hours per day (chap. 6 §§ 1 and 2 of the Prison and Probation Service's regulations and guidelines on prisons [KVFS 2011:1]). Corresponding provisions are lacking in the regulations governing remand prison operations. At the dialogue meeting in March 2019 with representatives of the Prison and Probation Service, I raised the issue of association in remand prisons. As mentioned above, the situation in an association department in a remand prison is “prison-like", which means that inmates usually associate for large parts of the day. On the other hand, in the case of inmates placed in an association place, the representatives of the Prison and Probation Service stated at the meeting that they are only given the chance to associate for parts of the day. The term association place began to be used by the Prison and Probation Service in 2005 in connection with the agency setting an objective for the use of isolationbreaking measures. However, there was no change to the actual places themselves, just a change in terminology. There is no minimum time specified 18 See the Parliamentary Ombudsmen 2015/16 p. 191. – 89 – Page 8 (21) C