the prison and probation service 38 During the inspection of the remand prison in Göteborg, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s employees talked to young persons under 18 years of age. Inter alia, they stated that they had not received information concerning how to contact the nurse and that it had taken several days before they were given the opportunity to take a shower. Following the inspection, the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman emphasised the importance of all prison staff who have contact with young people held on remand having or receiving the necessary training to treat them in the best possible way. The premise must be that the treatment of individual young person is adapted to their degree of maturity. Part of the work can be to communicate pedagogically, on several occasions both in writing and orally, the rights the young personhas whilst in remand prison. Staff should also make sure that the young person has understood the information to ensure that young people can understand their rights.16 Conditions in an association remand prison The Prison and Probation Service has a number of so-called association remand prisons where inmates without restrictions are allowed to associate with other inmates during the day. The remand prison branch Berga of Helsingborg remand prison was established in premises that were previously used as a prison. This means that inmates are given the opportunity to associate with other inmates for a large part of the day. During the inspection, it emerged that the inmates were not given the opportunity to associate outdoors in the former prison area and that they were not allowed to use the sports hall. Instead, the individuals held on remand were directed to use small exercise yards and small exercise rooms. The Prison and Probation Service’s remand prisons that receive individuals on remand without restrictions must have premises intended for inmates’ association with others Following the inspection, the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman stated that the remand prison branch is a positive example of how the Prison and Probation Service can organise its operations to give remand prisoners the opportunity to associate with each other. By establishing the association remand prison in premises that were previously used as a prison, remand prisoners without restrictions are given significantly better conditions for associating with others compared with if they were held in an association place. An inmate in the remand prison branch has the opportunity to associate with others for seven hours a day on weekdays. The experiences from the remand prison branch and other association remand prisons (for example, the remand prisons Salberga, Storboda and Ystad) show, in the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman’s view, the need for remand prisons that receive individuals on remand without restrictions to have premises intended for association amongst the remand prisoners. At the same time, the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman stated that if the inmates in the Berga remand prison branch were given the opportunity to use, for example, the sports hall, it could 16 See the Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s report p. 17, ref. no. O 7-2019.