36 NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENTARY OMBUDSMAN National Preventive Mechanism ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Stavanger Prison Interviews showed that the majority of the women found serving their sentence in Stavanger Prison unproblematic. The prison's continuous focus on dignified conditions for women and on ensuring that they feel safe during their imprisonment is assumed to be an important reason for this. The prison has prepared an action plan for inmates aged 18–21. Young inmates were given priority for work and school places. All the sections complied with the CPT’s recommendations for a minimum of 8 hours outside the cell each day. A review of administrative decisions showed that the security cells were used a total of 25 times in the period from 2015 to June 2016. The supervision log showed that inmates placed in security cells were under regular supervision by prison officers and the health service. The prison’s procedures for the use of security cells stated that full body searches are only to be carried out if strictly necessary and on the basis of an individual assessment. This is in line with the CPT's recommendations. The inmates described a mostly good environment at the sections and a strong sense of security. The staff received good feedback. There is a high level of awareness among staff that body searches should be conducted and urine samples collected by persons of the same sex as the inmate. Female inmates usually only had access to a male doctor. From a preventive healthcare point of view, it is important that inmates do not refrain from consulting a doctor or giving an honest description of their health problems because they find having an open dialogue with a male doctor problematic. The supervision log contained several notes from visits by the health service in which it seemed that health personnel had recommended that a decision to use a security cell should be upheld. It is emphasised that health personnel should always treat inmates as patients, and that the health personnel should never be involved in decisions to uphold the use of coercive measures. There was no regular practice of visiting inmates in solitary confinement daily.