DETENTION FACILITIES IN GREENLAND FOR INTOXICATED PERSONS tion facilities for intoxicated persons and that non-intoxicated persons are not subjected to constant television surveillance and light. It should therefore now be possible to regard the complex project at the Parliamentary Ombudsman as closed. However, the Ombudsman is still monitoring a few remaining issues, including the following: –– The waiting list in Greenland (to serve a sentence in one of the prisons for convicted persons) is – still – very long, despite the authorities’ many efforts to deal with the problem. –– The Parliamentary Ombudsman has had to ensure that inmates in the Greenlander Ward of the Herstedvester Prison continue to be able to stay at the detention facilities during their annual – very important – visits to Greenland. Meetings between the Ministry of Justice, the Directorate of Prisons and Probation and the Chief Constable of Greenland are held every six months, covering, among other things, conditions in the detention facilities. The Parliamentary Ombudsman continues to monitor the situation, partly by receiving minutes of the meetings. In early summer 2011, the Parliamentary Ombudsman carried out follow-up inspections of two prisons for convicted persons, three detention facilities and one boarding house on the west coast of Greenland. The Ombudsman’s statement from 1990, cf. the quote at the top of this article, has been pivotal to the work with the prison service in Greenland throughout all the years. The wish expressed by the then Chief Constable of Greenland in July 1989 that the death in a detention room in Qeqertarsuaq would lead to improvement of the standard of especially detention facilities for intoxicated persons must be said to have been fulfilled. 41