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Selected recommendations etc.4
Still pending at the time of going to press.
• Ensure precise and adequate documentation in records, and continuous quality control
• Inform doctor or healthcare staff of inmates placed in disciplinary cell and the expected duration of the placement
• Ensure that management continuously receive and actively use statistics regarding the duration of forcible
measures
• Maintain use of force protocols in accordance with the regulations
• Systematically carry out and document debriefings in accordance with regulations
• Draw up guidelines on prevention and follow-up of violence and threats between patients
• Ensure that interpreters are used to the necessary extent
• Ensure that staff consider using a handcuff transport belt in cases involving transport of inmates over longer
distances
• Ensure that the rules are observed when inmates are locked up in their own cells
Two own-initiative cases opened about the use of cell No. 709 and payment for hospital treatment of foreign
nationals sentenced to deportation.
Still pending at the time of going to press.
• Ensure that prison officers who have written a report on a disciplinary matter or have been involved in the matter
do not attend the interrogation
• Inform healthcare staff of inmates placed in disciplinary cell and the expected duration of the placement
• Ensure precise and adequate documentation in records, and continuous quality control
• Update instructions for handing out medicines and draw up instructions for treatment of abstinence
• Ensure that during disciplinary hearings no weight is attached to the inmate’s negative attitude as evidence that
the inmate has committed a disciplinary violation
• Deduct the time an inmate has been temporarily excluded from association from a subsequent placement in
disciplinary cell
• Ensure that healthcare staff are aware of the special circumstances applicable to healthcare service of persons
deprived of liberty, and ensure the quickest possible response to cell calls so the waiting time is 20 minutes at most
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Increase focus on the inmate understanding what is said during interrogation, and increase use of interpreter
Inform doctor of inmates placed in disciplinary cell and the expected duration of the placement
Not to use rooms of under eight square metres for double occupancy
Ensure that inmates can call a prison officer in order to go to the toilet during evening or night hours
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