Bjørgvin Prison, Juvenile Unit
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Places of detention at Gardermoen
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Ålseund police custody facility
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Lillestrøm police custody facility
Role confusion between the accident and emergency unit and the police at Lillestrøm. Both the Lillestrøm police and the local accident and emergency unit regard medical examinations requested by the police as forensic work.
Breakfast seminar: Launch of the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s 2014 annual reports
On 26 March 2015, the Parliamentary Ombudsman held a breakfast seminar to launch the 2014 annual reports. The seminar focused on the Ombudsman's work in 2014, the strategic direction for the year ahead, and the lessons learned since the establishment of Norway’s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture and Ill-treatment (NPM).
Human rights violations do occur in Norway
- Based on what we have seen in 2014, Norway needs a body that has a special mandate to detect and prevent any risk of torture and ill-treatment in places of detention, says Parliamentary Ombudsman Aage Thor Falkanger.
Ringerike Prison
Ringerike prison should improve its procedures for information sharing. Specifically, the police and the prison must improve their communications regarding prisoners’ mental health and any risk of suicide. This is one of the recommendations from the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s report following his visit to the prison in January of this year. In addition, inmates should be provided with better health services.
The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has issued an opinion on cross-border monitoring
At its plenary meeting in Geneva in February 2015, the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT) adopted an opinion on cross-border monitoring as guidance for the Norwegian NPM. The opinion concerns how to frame preventive work when one state enters into an agreement with another state with a view to sending inmates to the other state to serve their sentence there.
Bergen Prison
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Drammen police custody facility
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