Portugal Prisoners to Clean Forests to Prevent Fires

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Diploma states that they develop and implement "social reintegration and prison work programmes" which "contain public utility activities", including the cleaning of plants and forests.

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The Portuguese government intends to involve prisoners in clearing scrubland and forests, integrating these tasks into the prison work regime, with the aim of contributing to the prevention of forest fires. This measure is included in the draft law that defines the guidelines for criminal policy for the period 2025-2027, according to […]

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Government wants "cleansing, maintaining and valuing land, plants and forest areas" to include public utility activities. The bill was approved on Saturday.

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The Executive wants to involve prisoners in the cleaning of plants and forests as a measure of fire prevention, through prison work programmes provided for in the proposed criminal policy law for 2025-2027