61 National dialogue people deprived of their liberty. This includes teaching at the Correctional Service of Norway Staff Academy (KRUS) and for trainees at Oslo Prison, as well as lectures for law students at the University of Oslo and the University of Tromsø. Information work Sharing information about the conditions for people deprived of their liberty and increasing the public’s knowledge about the challenges facing the different sectors are a priority in the preventive work. It is important to reach out to the population in general, and to key target groups in particular, to create an understanding of the need for preventive efforts and to provide information about the findings and recommendations made after a visit. The NPM’s work received broad national and local media coverage in 2015. There were 849 news stories online, in printed media and in broadcast media during the year. A number of articles have also been 47 Number of meetings 19 Number of lectures written about the NPM’s work in several trade journals aimed at user groups and vocational groups that work with people deprived of their liberty. The Parliamentary Ombudsman’s website is the NPM’s primary information channel. Facebook and Twitter are used actively to spread information and direct readers to the website. Twitter contributes to an effective dissemination of new reports and it also serves as a discussion forum about the findings and recommendations in the reports. In 2015, the Parliamentary Ombudsman was mentioned in and sent a total of 1,402 twitter messages. More than half of them concerned the NPM’s activities. All of the visit reports are published on the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s website. The reply letters from the places of detention visited are also published here, in which they provide information about how they have followed up the visit and the report’s recommendations. 29 Number of attendances at conferences and seminars 849 Number of news stories