Former Sis employees tell SVT Nyheter that many locked up young people can surf for several hours every day and that there are unsupervised phone calls to friends and relatives.
"I've worked with people who have murdered and raped. You don't let them walk around with the ipad, do you? Well, that's the way it is, they can look up where you live. They started guessing my last name," says a former employee at the Tysslinge youth home outside Södertälje.
"Standing and waiting"
Two days have passed since a 17-year-old convicted of murder who was locked up at the accommodation was freed in connection with a dentist visit in central Södertälje. He is still at large on Saturday. Electronic communication was crucial for the release to be carried out, former Sis employees said.
"That's what allowed him to escape. It's simple, you fake tooth pain, we make an emergency appointment, he is told what time the transport will pick him up and he contacts his friends via Ipad and then they stand there waiting.
Want to see tougher rules
SIS calls for greater opportunities to limit communication. Young people on SIS can have a limited right to electronic communication, but only for 14 days at a time, and this possibility must be used restrictively according to the regulations. An investigator is currently looking at the issue on behalf of the government, and will present his proposals in the autumn.
"The problem is that we have legislation that covers a field of young people from children aged 12 to these older boys and girls who have been convicted of serious violent crimes," says Tomas Fjellvind, head of the Johannisberg Sis home in Kalix.
Even young people who have had their surfing time limited to one hour per day should have been able to surf for significantly longer than that, according to former employees at the Sis home in Tysslinge.
"You let them have the iPad and they keep quiet," says a former employee.
Earlier this year, SKR stated that serious crime has increased the severity of both Sis and HVB, and SVT has in a survey shown that young people who escape from youth homes are recruited by criminal gangs.