Annexes • The health service should participate in the regular monitoring of health care-related issues in the prison, including nutrition, cleaning, hygiene and the indoor climate. The health service’s professional knowledge can help to improve the living conditions of inmates. It is suggested that the prison and health service should inspect the prison buildings, including cells, outdoor areas, kitchen, hallways, visitation rooms, health service facilities, workshop and school, at least every six months to identify any conditions that could be damaging to inmates’ health. They should focus especially on vulnerable groups who could easily suffer damage to their health, including inmates with disabilities. • Tromsø prison should implement measures to ensure that inmates in the remand unit have the same opportunity to engage in communal activities as inmates in other departments. • The prison should implement measures to provide all inmates with the opportunity to spend at least eight hours a day outside their cell, engaged in meaningful activity. • Low-security sections should be adapted so that inmates with disabilities have the same opportunity as other inmates to serve their sentences under a lowsecurity regime. • Further, the prison should keep an overview of all inmates spending less than eight hours outside their cell each day, and document the activity programmes offered to them. • Inmates subject to court restrictions or with limited permission to engage in communal activities with other inmates should be provided with a satisfactory outdoor exercise option. As a minimum, inmates should be allowed to breathe fresh air and see daylight, and be given access to a space offering a real opportunity for movement and the feeling of being outside. • Staffing levels may only be used as a basis for collective exclusion from company during extraordinary staffing situations. • It should be ensured that all restrictions of or exclusions from company are recorded and that individual decisions are recorded in writing, if necessary, after the fact. • Women should have satisfactory prison conditions while serving in high-security detention. • Inmates with disabilities should be accommodated so that they face the same prison conditions as other inmates. While waiting for adapted cells to be built, inmates currently serving in a restricted section for no other reason than their disability should be given access to communal activities where they are. • The prison should ensure that inmates can receive visits from family and their social network. It is especially important to facilitate visits allowing inmates to be in regular contact with their children. Norway’s National Preventive Mechanism – Annual Report 2014 45