Sweden Plans Special Prisons for 13-Year-Old Offenders
The plan would send some minors to special prisons with schooling and rehabilitation as police say gangs recruit children online.
- Sweden plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 13 from 15, with Parliament expected to vote on June 15. Minors convicted of serious crimes will be locked in special prisons instead of youth welfare institutions.
- Criminal gangs increasingly recruit minors as young as 11 to commit shootings and bombings across Sweden. Authorities report that 52 children under 15 were suspected of murder or attempted murder last year, prompting the government to declare its softer approach has failed.
- At Rosersberg prison, one of three facilities being renovated for violent young offenders, daily life will focus on schoolwork. Prison governor Gabriel Wassman said inmates will have no phones, with cells locked nightly at 8 p.m., adding "they will grow up here."
- Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer argues prison will act as a deterrent, yet Vilma Ruth of the Center Party counters that a 13-year-old is still a child. Denmark lowered its age to 14 in 2010, but researchers found the change had no effect on crime levels.
- Prison governor Wassman expects the first young inmates to arrive after the summer. The government will review the measure after five years as Sweden combats criminal networks generating around 185 billion Swedish crowns annually.
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