In order to be able to meet increasingly difficult clients, security work has been expanded at the institution.

Since the first of September, there has been an on-duty officer at the institution Monday through Sunday during the day, and next year it will be further expanded as there will be an on-duty officer on site around the clock.

In addition, a security officer has been employed.

The purpose is, among other things, to support the staff in the daily work close to the client and to ensure that the training activities work in accordance with the routines and guidelines that exist.

- I have great respect for the concerns that exist, and this places demands on us in management to continue to increase the staff's knowledge of how to handle more difficult inmates in the best way.

Alarms about overcrowded prisons and institutions replace each other and in many places construction is underway to increase the number of places.

In Västra Götaland, today's approximately one thousand places will become two thousand within a five-year period.

Went from 60 to 106 in a year

At the open agricultural institution Rödjan in Mariestad, which has the lowest security class, the number of places has increased from 60 to 106 in just one year.

When everything is ready in 2026, there will be 394 places, of which 150 are in the higher security class.

It is a few years in the future and there are not enough places today, this applies especially in institutions with the higher security classes, the closed part.

- We need to do security assessments of clients more often now than before in order to be able to move inmates from the higher security class, where there is so little space, to the open institution instead, says Mohamad Mehanna, director of correctional services in Mariestad.

Is it an emergency solution due to lack of space when more heavily criminally charged clients are placed here?

- There is a great need for places in the closed part, but I want to say again that we should not risk safety in any way.

A need for places has also been seen in Borås.

The institution has now been expanded there.

Hear in the clip what is done when they discover that someone has been misplaced on Rödjan.