The Standing Committee on Justice has reviewed the government's white paper 'Punishment That Works'. The paper aims to ensure meaningful prison activities, improve staffing and working conditions, and manage prison capacity strategically. The committee proposes concrete measures on monitoring high-risk offenders, evaluating community sentences, supporting inmates' families, and recruiting personnel with relevant security expertise.
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The Storting calls on the government to propose legislation and allocate resources enabling relevant authorities to monitor and follow up with high-risk offenders after their sentences end.
The Storting calls on the government to explore a travel support scheme for families of inmates, ensuring that financial constraints do not prevent them from maintaining contact during imprisonment.
The Storting calls on the government to examine how volunteers can be better used as a resource in prison operations, and how the prison service can expand cooperation with inmates' families and networks.
The Storting calls on the government to conduct a comprehensive review of cultural programmes in prisons and strengthen cooperation between the Justice and Public Security Ministry and the Culture and Equality Ministry to enhance such programmes.
The Storting calls on the government to ensure that inmates have broadly equal access to work and education opportunities regardless of which prison they serve their sentence in, provided they are able and willing to participate.
The Storting calls on the government to evaluate community sentences as a criminal sanction, with a view to developing the scheme further, including particular consideration of how it is used for young offenders.
The Storting calls on the government to consider changes in the prison service that would increase use of restorative justice processes, particularly in cases involving persons below the age of criminal responsibility.
The Storting calls on the government to implement measures that allow personnel with other relevant security expertise and experience, such as detention officers, to be employed in the prison service.
The Storting calls on the government to establish decentralised vocational training programmes to increase recruitment to the prison service and to attract employees with other professional qualifications.