OTHER ISSUES example during body searches. For these reasons, in the view of the Parliamentary Ombudsman, there is a great on staff Staff who work in secure responsibility working in secure enenvironments have a par- vironments to stay at ticularly large responsibi- home even with very lility to stay at home even mited symptoms. In the several with very mild symptoms questionnaire, inmates stated that there was also a large staff turnover. An inmate at Svartsjö prison made the following comment: “Since the decision to remove visits + leave was made with the motivation to protect us inmates + staff, it is a bit strange that the staff changes have more or less doubled. Fever checks should be performed on staff when entering the prison, but does not happen since staff show up for work with fever and a sore throat. Introducing a ban on visits and leave has not limited or [reduced] the risk of becoming infected with any virus, instead we have had the same risk of infection as the rest of society. The only thing that has been limited is my opportunity to meet [my family]. Otherwise, everything is the same and the same applies to the risk of being exposed to infection. ” 7 and that the activities are organised in such a way that staff do not work in different places as much as is possible. During conversations that the Parliamentary Ombudsmen employees had with staff in prisons and remand prisons, it emerged that inmates who were suspected or confirmed to be infected with Covid-19 at Kronoberg prison had been placed in the prison’s department assigned for caregiving. Five of a total of ten places were intended for these inmates, and the other five places were used for placement of inmates with other care needs. It was stated that the same staff came into contact with the inmates there regardless of the reason why they were placed in the department. Parliamentary Ombudsman Katarina Påhlsson stated that there was, therefore, a risk of Covid-19 infection being transmitted to inmates who had other types of care needs. For this reason, she assumed that the staff there at least had access to the right protective equipment and were, in addition, trained in how to use it. 7.4 A former detainee who died of Covid-19 After Parliamentary Ombudsman Katarina Påhlsson’s final dialogue meeting with the management of the Prison and Probation Service, the agency announced that there were now strategies where the question of limiting the number of inmates that the employees came into contact with was “included”. Due to this, the Parliamentary Ombudsman emphasised that a reasonable starting point must be that contact between departments is reduced During the investigation of the Swedish Migration Agency’s measures in connection with Covid-19, details emerged that a man previously detained at the detention centre in Märsta had been infected with Covid-19 and then died in hospital. After the Police Authority had decided to revoke his detention order, the man was still allowed to remain in the detention centre. The head of the detention centre made a note stating that they had kept the man in the detention centre and that the decision had been made with “consideration of the situation in Sweden where we have a responsibility to reduce the spread of infection.” According to the note, the person – 57 –