1 SUMMARY 7 How does the Prison and Probation Service work with isolation-breaking measures? ................. 37 8 The Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s inspections of remand prisons 2015–2019 ............................... 41 8.1 Inmates’ right of association with other inmates ................................................................... 42 8.2 Work with isolation-breaking measures ................................................................................. 43 8.3 The Prison and Probation Service’s planning and design of remand prison premises ..... 45 8.4 Shortcomings in some remand prisons ................................................................................... 48 8.5 The association remand prison in Helsingborg ..................................................................... 50 8.6 Overcrowding in remand prisons ............................................................................................ 52 8.7 Placing inmates in segregation ................................................................................................. 54 9 The Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s own-initiative inquiry on the isolation of inmates in remand prison .......................................................................................................................................... 57 9.1 Inmates’ right of association with other inmates ................................................................... 57 9.2 Measures to break the isolation of inmates ............................................................................. 60 9.3 The ability to follow the work on the use of isolation-breaking measures ......................... 61 9.4 Need for legislative changes ...................................................................................................... 63 Appendices .................................................................................................................................................... 64 A. Inspections of the Prison and Probation Service’s remand prisons performed 2015–2019 ..... 65 B. Report from dialogue meeting on 9 March 2019 ........................................................................... 67 C. The Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s decision on 5 February 2020, dnr O 7-2018 ........................ 82 –6–