4 Content Foreword ........................................................................................................................................................... 3 1 The OPCAT activities ................................................................................................................................. 7 1.1 Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment ...................................................................... 8 1.2 The Convention against Torture and OPCAT .................................................................................. 8 1.3 Preventive activities ............................................................................................................................. 9 1.4 OPCAT activities in Sweden .............................................................................................................. 9 1.5 International oversight bodies .......................................................................................................... 10 1.6 The Nordic NPM network.................................................................................................................. 11 1.7 Purpose of this report ......................................................................................................................... 11 2 OPCAT inspections in 2019 .....................................................................................................................13 2.1 Method................................................................................................................................................. 14 2.2 Places where individuals are deprived of their liberty ...................................................................15 2.3 Inspections and dialogue meetings ..................................................................................................15 3 The Police Authority ..................................................................................................................................17 3.1 Observations made during this year’s inspections ..........................................................................18 Individuals held on remand in police custody facilities............................................................19 Holding individuals in custody in connection with assisted transportation ........................20 Attempted suicides and acts of self-harm ...................................................................................21 Shortcomings in the physical environment .............................................................................. 22 Inmates’ clothing and bedding .................................................................................................... 23 Persons detained due to intoxication ......................................................................................... 24 Supervisors’ remote reviews ....................................................................................................... 24 Information on rights ................................................................................................................... 26 Monitoring ..................................................................................................................................... 27 Police custody guards’ training ................................................................................................... 27 3.2 Cases where responses from the Police Authority have been requested .................................... 28 Physical design of cells ................................................................................................................. 28 Cell environment .......................................................................................................................... 29 Entry of natural light into cells ................................................................................................... 29 The design and layout of a police custody facility .................................................................... 30 Exercise yard environment .......................................................................................................... 30 Access to bedding ......................................................................................................................... 30 3.3 Conclusions .........................................................................................................................................31 4 The Prison and Probation Service ..........................................................................................................33 4.1 Observations made during this year’s inspections ........................................................................ 34 Placing inmates in segregation ....................................................................................................35 Body searches ................................................................................................................................ 37 Conditions for young people under 18 held on remand .......................................................... 37 Conditions in an association remand prison ............................................................................ 38 Work to prevent acts of self-harm .............................................................................................. 39 Possibility to visit the toilet at night ...........................................................................................40 4.2 Own-initiative inquiries concerning remand prisons and prisons .............................................40 An inmate’s access to medical care ............................................................................................. 41 Occupancy situation in the Prison and Probation Service ..................................................... 41 Isolation of inmates in remand prisons ..................................................................................... 42