US EditionMore European Countries Want to Send Their Prisoners to Other Countries
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The Finnish Ministry of Justice is currently considering the possibility of concluding a prison rental agreement with Estonia similar to the one concluded between Estonia and Sweden, writes Helsingin Sanomat.
The Ministry of Justice is currently investigating the leasing of prison places from abroad.
Estonian Minister of Justice and Digital Technology Liisa Pakosta spoke about a number of countries that have informally studied the possibility of renting prison places in Estonia to hold their prisoners there.
World Prison Brief data cited in Economist article on foreign national prisoners
World Prison Brief data has been cited in an article in The Economist looking at the increasing number of European countries that are renting prison cells in neighbouring countries to reduce prison overcrowding by sending their foreign national prisoners there. ICPR’s Catherine Heard is quoted in the article, saying ““Rather than accepting that decades of tougher sentencing policies are what caused the crisis, not foreign criminals, it is politi…
According to the Swedish government, adult men who have been convicted of, for example, murder, financial crimes or sexual crimes can be placed in Tartu.
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