1 OVERVIE W OF THE INVESTIGATIONS BY OPC AT UNIT IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 2020 Board of Institutional Care are responsible for more than 7,500 people deprived of their liberty. The Prison and Probation Service The Prison and Probation Service is responsible for enforcing sentences, operating remand prisons and preparing pre-sentencing reports of persons in criminal cases. The agency conducts its activities in, inter alia, 32 remand prisons and 45 prisons with places for over 6,000 inmates (spring 2020). Provisions that regulate the treatment of inmates are found in, inter alia, the Remand Prisons Act (2010:611) and the Prisons Act (2010:610). The National Board of Institutional Care The National Board of Institutional Care is responsible for special residential homes for substance abusers as well as the special residential homes for young people. The agency conducts its activities in 11 special residential homes for substance abusers and 22 special residential homes for young people with places for more than 1,000 residents (spring 2020). In the special residential homes for young people, young people who have been sentenced to secure youth care are also placed. Provisions that regulate the treatment of residents are found in, inter alia, the Care of Abusers Act (1988:870), Care of Young Persons Act (1990:52) and the Enforcement of Secure Youth Care Act (1998:603). The National Board of Forensic Medicine The National Board of Forensic Medicine is the central administrative agency for forensic psychiatric, forensic chemistry, forensic and forensic genetics activities to the extent that such matters are not dealt with by another agency. The National Board of Forensic Medicine plays a central role in forensic psychiatric examinations in criminal cases and medical certificates referred to in Section 7 of the Special Pre-sentence Investigations of Per- sons in Criminal Cases Act (1991: 2041). The agency has two forensic psychiatric examination divisions (Gothenburg and Stockholm) with just over 30 places (spring 2020). People who are held on remand can be placed in an examination division during the time they undergo a forensic psychiatric examination. In certain situations, the National Board of Forensic Medicine may decide that a person should receive forensic psychiatric care. Provisions that regulate the treatment of people placed here are found in the Remand Prisons Act and the Forensic Psychiatric Care Act (1991:1129). The Swedish Migration Agency The Swedish Migration Agency is responsible for, inter alia, operating detention centres in an appropriate manner. The agency has six detention centres with approximately 500 places (at the beginning of 2020). Foreigners who have been detained under the Aliens Act (2005:716) are held in detention centres. The provisions that regulate the treatment of detainees are, inter alia, in the law mentioned above. 1.4 Purpose of this report The decisions are based on the situation as it was in the spring of 2020. The decisions, and the presentation of them in this report, provide a kind of snapshot of how the pandemic has affected people deprived of their liberty during this time period. The agencies investigated have subsequently taken further actions and changed previously introduced restrictions. These measures and changes are not described in this report, and, as such, it does not describe the situation for people deprived of their liberty during the autumn of 2020. The report, therefore, summarises the most important observations and statements made by the Parliamentary – 10 –