34 The NPM got the impression that inmates in the women’s section had often been locked in during periods of high sickness absence among the staff or when there were a large number of escorted leaves. The women in the section also expressed dissatisfaction that they were not allowed to use the large exercise yard. The exercise yard near the women’s section did not provide any real opportunities for running or ball games. After the visit After the visit, Trondheim Prison has initiated efforts to bring administrative decisions in line with the applicable legislation, provide training to those responsible for decisions and establish control procedures. The prison has also purchased special clothing for use in security cells so that inmates who, following an individual assessment, are not allowed to wear their own clothes in the cell do not have to be naked. The prison will also increase and provide a more adapted employment and activity programme to inmates. It is also positive that the prison states that questions relating to mental health and suicide risk have been included in the templates for admission interviews and mapping. NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENTARY OMBUDSMAN National Preventive Mechanism against Torture and Ill-Treatment ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Telemark Prison, Skien branch 2–4 June 2015 Announced visit The prison’s regular capacity consists of 82 places at the high-security level. When the prison holds inmates in the department with the highest security level, the capacity is 76 places. The prison held no female inmates at the time of the NPM’s visit. Findings The NPM examined the prison’s handling of serious incidents and use of coercive measures. The security cells had been used a total of seven times in 2014 and, up until the visit, four times in 2015. The review of documents related to stays in the security cells indicated that the prison had a high threshold for placing inmates in a security cell, in accordance with what is prescribed by law. However, administrative decisions, records and the supervision logs were in the form of loose sheets in ring binders. The sheets containing the supervision logs were generally not numbered. The ring binder system is vulnerable because it can subsequently be changed and it is therefore not perceived as secure. Furthermore, no grounds were stated in the supervision log for changing the frequency of supervision and there was no description of measures to bring the stay in the security cell to an end as soon as possible. An administrative decision related to one stay in a security cell was missing for 2014. Moreover, there was no supervision log for one stay in a restraint bed and for one period of such a stay. The absence of an administrative decision and the failure to keep a log constitute serious breaches of the inmates’ legal protection. Trondheim Prison As a result of the prison’s high occupancy level (97.4 per cent during the visit), newly admitted inmates and inmates who were transferred from the communal sections to the restricted section on the basis of administrative decisions regarding exclusion from company remained in the restricted section considerably longer than they should.