CAT/OP/SWE/1/Add.1 page 8 33. Even in cases when a prisoner’s contact with other prisoners is restricted by a court decision, the remand prison can arrange work, education and physical activities on an individual basis. 34. As a result of the Government’s focus on measures to combat alcohol and substance abuse, the Prison and Probation Service has established addiction care teams at almost all remand prisons. The teams use the remand period to try to motivate prisoners to get to grips with their addiction, help them be placed in a prison that focuses on treatment, or in a contract treatment programme that can help the client become free from the addiction. 35. In order to strengthen the prisoners’ possibilities to maintain close contact with their families while serving a prison sentence the Prison and Probation Service has taken action in several areas 1 – these efforts have been carried out in close cooperation with, and are officially approved by, the Children’s Ombudsman. 36. The Swedish Prison and Probation Administration is in an expansive phase of building new prisons and remand prisons. Since 2005 a number of new prisons and remand prisons have been built in order to put the Prison and Probation Service in a better position to cope with the needs of an increasing prison and remand prison population. 37. Between 2004 and 2007 the Prison and Probation Service created 1 583 new places. This has provided a net addition of 723 places in prison and 266 places in remand prisons, due to the closure of other accommodation during the same period. It has resulted in three new prison establishments in the Central, Eastern and Western Region with a total capacity of 633 places. The plan covering the years 2008 to 2011 provides that around 1 000 new places will be created. The plan contains, for example, additional remand facilities in Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö. Extensive repairs and maintenance work will take place alongside the construction work during this period. 38. Since 2004 the Government has allocated considerable resources to increase the number of prison places and further develop the Prison and Probation Service in the areas of security, treatment activities and vocational training. The Prison and Probation Service is currently reviewing whether adequate numbers of staff with the necessary skills are present during all hours. In some cases it has been found that there is a need for more resources, for example in Kronoberg remand prison. 1 For example, the appointment of a “child representative” within prisons and remand prisons, accommodation rooms being designed to be appropriate for accompanying children, a visiting room at each institution being set up for children and possibilities for telephone calls free of charge