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May 26, 2012
Sweden set to send foreign prisoners home
Published: 28 Mar 11 07:34 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/32848/20110328/
The European Union has proposed that prisoners committing offences in another member state should be able to serve their sentences in their home country.
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The government met last Thursday to decide to appoint a commission to adapt Swedish legislation to the EU directive, with the general rule being that citizens should serve their sentence in their country of nationality or residence.
"It is important that rehabilitation process takes place in the country in which one lives," Sweden's justice minister Beatrice Ask told Sveriges Television's Rapport news programme.
The opportunity to serve a sentence in a home country already exists and last year 55 people were transferred from Sweden to other EU countries to serve out their time.
But the system is currently based on a set of voluntary rules and in the future it will be harder for the prisoner and the recipient country to refuse a transfer.
Even if the new rules will mean that Swedes convicted of imprisonment in other countries will serve their penalties in Sweden, the pressure on Swedish prisons is expected to decline.
Aside from custodial sentences the changes also apply to psychiatric care, community service and probation.
The government inquiry is due to be completed by September 30th next year.
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Sweden is the country that is behind all others, on this one.
It should be interesting to see how many Swedes migrate back home through the jail system. I look forward to those figures.
What concers Swedes doing time in Sweden instead of where they commited their crimes so why not, but again make sure that they complete their sentence.
It'll not work in Sweden, there might be a risk that the convict will be sent to a dangerous country, can't have that can we!!!
The EU rules on this only apply to EU citizens in EU countries.
If a person born in Bosnia with a Swedish residents permit commits a crime in Sweden, then he will serve his sentence in Sweden.
So there is nothing to see here for the usual suspects so bye bye
1. The Prisioner will have to agree to be sent home to their home country in what is called a "Treaty Transfer.
2. Ussually the transfer has to be reviewed and approved by both nations.
3. The nation involved has to already be a Treaty Transfer nation at time of request.
4. The inmate has to sign paperwork agreeing that he has exhausted all appeals and that he will complete the entire sentence in the transfer country.
5. The inmate has the same parole rights as the original sentencing country.
6. The Department of Justice and State Department monitor the incarceration with unanounced visits to the new prison.
For most it means living in worse conditions, but nearer their families, which can be very important considering the numerous 35 years to Life sentences that are the penalty in US Federal Courts.
What is the prisoners population today in Sweden ?
Little Jimmy has no idea how many prisoners there are in Sweden, he has never been here and could not even find it on a map
"To all the usual suspects getting a thrill out of the idea..."
Usually, "usual suspects" is a reference to the Resistance who sabotaged the local nazi occupiers in the great American movie Casablanca. "Round up the usual suspects" is the memorable line made famous by Claud Rains who played chief of police.
Have long wondered if you consider yourself TL's chief of police. But to give you the benefit of the doubt, let's just agree you've got things all backwards (again).
Suggest you (re)watch the great Humphrey Bogart-Ingrid Bergman classic.
@rick metheven: I know more about Sweden than you will now in your entire life, I am a immigrant like you but I am Swede, just in another country like you.
It is you who come up with the insinuation that most Swedish prisoners are foreigners ; it should be you, not "someone who knows the subject" to provide some evidence to back up what you put forward .
Is this subject too big for you afterall ?
Want some stats?
Ask our beloved Local...www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=2683&date=20051214
@ Rick
And as usual, Rick's most clever response is to declare himself the only expat in all of Sweden. The rest are all US-Zionist shills.
Where am I writing from today, lillebror?
@Technoviking: The link you post, some things are truth but some is not.
I beginning to think that you are not exactly an intellectual . I humbly advise you to educate yourself before jumping into the ring .
The bottom line is that it is NOT TRUE that most Swedish prisoners are foreigners from outside Europe ,
What people like Jimmy hope is that just like the boy who cried "Wolf", if they keep on pushing the same lies long enough, somebody will believe them. Thankfully it is only those of little intellect that are taken in by it.
@Rick Methven: You deffinitelly a immigrant so is normal you are going to defend the foreigners and everything about then.
You try to backup your claim by heresay " I have a friend" If you do have a friend, which is highly unlikely, he most probably tells as many lies as you. But only you are gullible enough to believe him.
As for me, after 30 years, I am not an immigrant but a fully fledged member of the community
How about this ? I too have a friend who works in a prison and he tells me that most of their prisoners are not immigrants .
Note that in this case - I mean simple facts - "MOST" becomes a number .which represents a FACT ., Or shall we say that one immigrant equals 67 non-immigrants ?
@Rickmethven: " A fully fledged of the community" it´s say everthing. Even if you are in Sweden for 40/50 years you still immigrant, you still foreigner.
so your point is that "your friend" is telling you the truth but "my friend" is telling me lies ? !
I have to ask again : what type of prisoners are in which prison and in what numbers and nationalities ?
Surely , your friend , who works in prisons , must know someone who knows someone who has some data we can all look at here .