37 Selected topics from 2019 10 recommendations from the Special Report to the Storting on Solitary Confinement and Lack of Human Contact in Norwegian Prisons 1. Ensure reliable and publicly available data on the extent of solitary confinement in Norwegian prisons. 6. Ensure that common professional guidelines are drawn up to ensure satisfactory follow-up of inmates in solitary confinement. 2. Establish a national standard to ensure that inmates have the possibility of associating with others for at least eight hours every day and are offered meaningful activities. 7. Prepare a plan for closing down or adapting all prison sections currently not adapted for association between inmates. 3. Amend the provisions of the Execution of Sentences Act to ensure that: › solitary confinement is only used in exceptional cases and for as brief a period as possible; › follow-up off all inmates in solitary confinement in accordance with human rights standards; › solitary confinement for 22 hours or more a day is prohibited in situations mentioned in the Nelson Mandela Rules. 4. Submit a proposal for a statutory or regulatory duty to prevent the use of solitary confinement in prisons. 5. Strengthen the Correctional Service’s supervisory regime by defining a legal mandate that ensures systematic and regular supervision in accordance with international human rights standards. 8. Revise the national guidelines to health and care services for prison inmates, to ensure that the detrimental effects of isolation are identified and that inmates in solitary confinement receive follow-up. 9. Establish by law that the health service is responsible for following up inmates in solitary confinement, so that inmates who are isolated or excluded from company are followed up by medical personnel on a daily basis. 10. Ensure that the prison health services are provided with a stronger common professional platform, with particular focus on competence relating to inmates’ special health issues, solitary confinement and the detrimental effects of isolation.