Recommendations (A/HRC/10/44/Add.2) Situation during visit in 2008 Information received in the reporting Steps taken in previous years and (See A/HRC/13/39/Add.6; A/HRC/16/52/Add.2A) period confinement of persons under the age of 18 years. - Although the Government acknowledged the need to decrease the number and duration of solitary confinement, it continues to use solitary confinement to secure the criminal investigation in serious offences, such as organized crime, gang crime, severe drug crime and terrorism. Government: According to the report of the Danish Ministry of Justice from June 200917, from 2004 to 2007, there has been some decrease in the use of solitary confinement of remand prisoners with significant decrease registered during the period of 2006-2007 and an increase in the number of remand prisoners in solitary confinement registered in the period of 2007-2008. The average length of solitary confinement has decreased in recent years. The total number of days remand prisoners were held in solitary confinement was 13.838 in 2006, 7.189 in 2007 and 6.910 in 2008. In 2008, the total number of days remand prisoners were in solitary confinement was the lowest since the registration started in 2001. A report from the Danish Prison and Probation Service18 shows that the number of persons excluded from association with other detainees was 715 in 2006 and 631 in 2007. 704 persons were excluded from 18 Statistik om isolationsfængsling, juni 2009, Justitsministeriets Forskningskontor [Ministry of Justice], available in Danish at: http://www.justitsministeriet.dk/fileadmin/downloads/Forskning_og_dokumentation/Isolationsrapport%202008.pdf Statistik 2009, Kriminalforsorgen [Danish Prison and Probation Service], available in Danish at: http://www.kriminalforsorgen.dk/Admin/Public/Download.aspx?file=Files/Filer/Statistik/Statistik_2009.pdf 29 A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 17