33 Visits in 2018 Prisons Arendal Prison 7–8 February 2018 Arendal Prison has capacity for 32 male inmates in it’s high-security section. The NPM did not visit the prison’s low-security section. The prison, which was built in 1862, is due to be closed down when a new prison in Agder is completed in 2020. During the visit, the NPM found a number of circumstances that gave cause for concern. The most serious finding was the degree to which lock-ins and isolation were used. This particularly applied to the section for convicted inmates, where inmates were locked in their cells for more than 20  hours a day from Friday to Monday. Several inmates in this section where also locked in their cells for 20 hours a day on weekdays. A number of inmates said that they did not feel safe in the prison. They gave reports of inmates screaming, crying loudly and kicking and hitting the doors. This led to several inmates fearing that other inmates might develop aggressive tendencies due to excessive lock-ins. Arendal Prison