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Contents
Preface........................................................................................................................................................... 3
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................7
1. Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment................................9
General...................................................................................................................................................10
Conventions etc. ..................................................................................................................................10
Definitions......................................................................................................................................11
Praxis ..............................................................................................................................................12
Review bodies etc. ........................................................................................................................12
Focus of the work .........................................................................................................................13
2. The Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s OPCAT activities ....................................................................15
General information about the focus of activities ...........................................................................16
Regular inspection activities........................................................................................................16
Selection of inspection objects ....................................................................................................17
Working method ...........................................................................................................................17
Follow-up inspections and dialogues .........................................................................................18
Tematic focus ................................................................................................................................19
3. OPCAT inspections 2011–2014 ........................................................................................................21
Completed inspections .......................................................................................................................22
The Swedish Police Authority ............................................................................................................23
General background .....................................................................................................................23
Police detention facilities .............................................................................................................24
The Prison and Probation Pervice .....................................................................................................27
General background .....................................................................................................................27
Remand prisons ............................................................................................................................28
Prisons ............................................................................................................................................29
The Swedish National Board of Institutional Care (SiS) ................................................................30
General background......................................................................................................................30
Special residential homes for young people and LVM homes ................................................31