Fysisk aktivitet på en svensk anstalt : En studie om möjligheten till fysisk aktivitet för fängelseintagna i en svensk kriminalvårdsanstalt med säkerhetsklass 2

Sammanfattning: Physical activity have a given role in todays society and plays an essential role for our health. Inmates in swedish prisons is a group that have a long list of things that they have to relate to when it comes to physical activitity and their possibilities to exercise it. The purpose of this essay is to find out more about how the possibilities to engage in physical activity in a swedish correctional institution with security class 2 and also to investigate how the prison works with and thinks about physical activity for their clients. In this study we have used qualitative interview with a correctional officer as method to examine our questions. The main result of the study shows that the prison offers access to a sports center, gym and a volleyball pitch outside for the clients. Something else the prison have to offer the clients is physical activity as other structural activity with educated personell. The fact that the prison have people with education in physical activity hired shows that physical activity and the clients access to it is something highly valued and prioritized at the prison. This is something that have spread throughout the prisons of Sweden and have resulted in clients activley tries to get a spot at the prison we examined, just because of their access to physical activity. There are laws and regulations that the prison have to follow when it comed to what types of physical activites are allowed. For example is it forbidden to use weights over 50 kg and moments of martial arts is not allowed for the clients to engage in. In summary,  we can conclude that the prisons accessability to physical activity is quite good and that they work diligently to make what they can to promote physical activity for their clients.