Prison closures needed to keep authority afloat
Published: 25 Oct 09 10:00 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/22860/20091025/
An overhaul of Swedish prisons will see 14 institutions affected by closures and cutbacks as the appointed authority is forced to juggle figures in line with its budget for 2010.
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Ahead of the announcement, an article in Dagens Nyheter newspaper specifies 14 prisons which will be affected and reports the loss of 850 prison places and 630 jobs in the reorganisation.
Prisons will be close in in Östersund, Härnösand, Uppsala, Norrköping, Uddevalla, Ängelholm, Karlskrona and Trelleborg. Criminal institutions affected in the reorganisation include Viskan, Johannesberg and Mariestad.
In recent years Kriminalvården has concentrated on the development of three prisons at Kumla, Hall and Saltvik, all of which will be completed by the end of the year.
But the project has proved costly and the authority’s 7.3 billion kronor budget for 2010 is not enough to keep these and existing prisons running.
Lars Nylén, director-general of Kriminalvården, told DN that further expansion projects have been put on hold and the government has told the authority to solve the situation.
”We were already planning for closures but now we are in a position where we are forced to shut them down,” he said.
A number of institutions to be closed are 19th century buildings considered to be old-fashioned in today’s modern prison service.
Many of the prisons set to shut shared facilities with police stations that have since relocated.
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I believe there is always a way: move some industries to the prisons, put these people to work. They can earn a small wage so they have some savings when their term is finished and also generate profit to support the system they have been depending on.
So now he's found a topic to comment on and as usual he just spouts crap..
As usual he is wrong. There is no correlation between closing prisons and immigration.
I think DreEstwd should take a warning to stop spouting so much crap from his boss being reported for hate crime
http://www.thelocal.se/22762/20091020/
You show your true colors with the usual fascist diatribe
It may be true that 30% of prisoners in Sweden are foreign nationals. They come from all over Europe, Russia, Far East etc. - Biggest group, I have heard is the Serbian Mafia
Where you always go wrong is that because of your single track mind you equate immigrant with Muslim and just like your SD controllers you then say "30% of prisoners are Muslim" Just like you say that "ALL rape in Sweden is done by Muslims".
You are very fond of using the word FACTS when what you really mean is " I do not have any proof but this is what I would like to be the FACT and maybe if I keep saying it long enough maybe people will believe me.
I am not an Arabic apologist, I have said on many occasions that there are problems that need to be addressed. The sort of unfounded Islamaphobic fear mongering the you and your ilk go around spreading does absolutely nothing to improve the situation