SUMMARIES OF SELECTED STATEMENTS Finally, the Ombudsman found it regrettable that a text message from the Chief of Defence to the Minister of Defence had not been registered to the case by the time of the decision, as a result of which the question of access to the message was not considered until later. On reconsidering the case, the Ministry of Defence granted the journalist access to further information. F. MINISTRY OF JUSTICE The following statements on cases concluded in 2015 have been published: 2015-7. Demands on the investigation of cases about deaths at Prison and Probation Service institutions By agreement with the Department of the Prison and Probation Service, the Ombudsman is informed about the outcome of the Department’s investigations in all cases regarding deaths, suicides, attempted suicides and other suicidal or self-harming behaviour among inmates at institutions under the Prison and Probation Service. The Ombudsman assesses whether the Department and the institutions have acted contrary to applicable law or otherwise have been guilty of errors or dereliction in connection with such incidents. The Ombudsman considers, among other things, whether the institution and the Department have undertaken a sufficient investigation of the incidents. In a specific case, a prison inmate was found dead in his cell. After an analysis of a syringe and a hypodermic needle, the Department of Forensic Medicine reached the conclusion that the inmate had died from an intravenous injection of heroin/morphine. However, investigations carried out by the prison and the Department of the Prison and Probation Service did not include any information about a syringe and a hypodermic needle having been found. Following an enquiry from the Ombudsman, the Department of the Prison and Probation Service stated that prison officer trainees had found the syringe and the hypodermic needle by chance 10 days after the incident. The syringe and the hypodermic needle had not been part of the prison’s and the Department of the Prison and Probation Service’s investigation of the case. The syringe and the hypodermic needle had merely been included in the Department of Forensic Medicine’s investigation of the death. 133