2.7.2020

Protecting prison inmates during COVID-19 pendemic – Summary and key feedbacks

The Parliamentary Ombudsman has investigated the safeguarding of inmates in Norwegian prisons during the initial period following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The investigation is based on information obtained…

2.7.2020

New visit report – Stavanger Health Trust Division of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care Services

The Parliamentary Ombudsman’s National Preventive Mechanism visited the Stavanger Health Trust Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care Services during the periods 8-10 October and 29-30 October 2019. We…

2.7.2020

New visit report – BUP Inpatient Unit, Levanger Hospital

The Parliamentary Ombudsman’s National Preventive Mechanism visited the inpatient unit at Levanger Hospital’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care Services (BUP), 10–12 February 2020. The unit was not notified of…

2.7.2020

New visit report – Olivia Solhaugen Hadeland

The Parliamentary Ombudsman’s National Preventive Mechanism visited Olivia Solhaugen’s child welfare units in Hadeland in January 2020. Separate visits were made to the Myrheim and Storetjern units. Both units accepted…

30.6.2020

New visit report-Jong Youth Home

The Parliamentary Ombudsman’s National Preventive Mechanism made an unannounced visit to Jong Youth Home on 25–26 September 2019. Jong Youth Home is a state-run child welfare institution that can receive…

30.6.2020

New visit raport – Stendi Nymogården Child Welfare Institution

Representatives from the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s National Preventive Mechanism visited the Stendi Nymogården Child Welfare Institution from 12 to 14 November 2019.  …

14.5.2020

The use of restraint beds in prisons pose a significant risk of breaching the prohibition against inhumane treatment

Placing an inmate in a restraint bed is one of the most serious coercion methods that Norwegian prisons can use. The Parliamentary Ombudsman has investigated the use of restraint beds in prisons in the period 2013-2018 and recommends in a Special Report that restraint beds should be abolished entirely.

7.5.2020

A newsletter from the European NPM Forum

The European NPM Forum har recently published the European NPM Newsletter new series issue no. 6 (March-April 2020) produced by the newly established Torture Prevention Unit within the Council of…

27.3.2020

Covid-19 Pandemic: Prevention of inhuman treatment of persons deprived of their liberty

Persons deprived of their liberty are, for various reasons, particularly at risk in the situation that arise from the Covid-19 pandemic. This concerns persons detained in institutions such as prisons,…

24.3.2020

Annual reports for 2019 delivered to the Parliament

The Parliamentary Ombudsman submitted its annual reports for 2019 to the President of the Parliament, Tone W. Trøen. Every year, the Parliamentary Ombudsman submits two annual reports to the Parliament.