“The authorities in the emergency meeting about overcrowded jails”
“the Country’s jails are full to bursting and with the reason of it held an emergency meeting on Friday, reports the Echo in the Radio.”
“The high pressure on the detention facilities is in part together with the high occupancy rate at the institutions. Currently, there are 130 people on the country’s overcrowded jails, which would actually sit on an institution.”
“Seven commissioners of the law enforcement authorities, including the police, probation and prosecutor’s office, met in Stockholm in order to find emergency solutions.”
” the Situation is very serious. We now have overcrowded jails at a level that means that 23 of the 32 jails in the country has more than 100 percent of the coating, and it is totally unacceptable much, ” says Nils Öberg, director-general of the prison service, to the radio.”
“in Order to deal with the problem, several working groups have been created to investigate how to put the detainee in a double room. But in the long term must correctional capacity expanded, according to Oberg.”
“– The situation that we have today, are now at risk to worsen in the coming months. We cannot have a situation where our jails are subject to 100 per cent or more. We should be a maximum of 90% coated, ” he says.”
