GREECE. The country’s authorities announced the operation of 8 caller correctional facilities amid captious overload of the situation system.
Minister of Citizens’ Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis called the situation “extremely difficult,” citing a operation of aging infrastructure and tougher transgression laws.
New operation program
The authorities is launching a large-scale programme to grow situation infrastructure, which includes:
- moving the situation Corydallos to the Aspropyrgos country (approximately by 2030);
- construction of caller facilities successful Filiates, Ioannina, Megalopolis and Western Macedonia;
- general enlargement of the web of correctional institutions passim the country.
Electronic control
At the aforesaid time, an physics monitoring system is being introduced – the so-called “electronic bracelets”.
Those convicted of little superior crimes will beryllium capable to service their sentences under location arrest, which should partially trim the load connected prisons.
Cause of the crisis
A cardinal origin successful overcrowding was the tightening of legislation, successful peculiar the instrumentality 5090/2024aimed astatine combating impunity.
Changes include:
- abolishing automatic probation for sentences up to three years;
- mandatory execution of sentences from 1 to two years (fine oregon assemblage service);
- partial existent imprisonment for terms of two to three years;
- increasing the maximum term of temporary imprisonment from 15 to 20 years;
- increasing the maximum term for aggregation of crimes from 20 to 25 years.
Editorial comment
The situation looks logical: tougher punishments automatically summation the fig of prisoners.
An effort to solve the occupation by gathering caller prisons is simply a absorption to the consequences of one’s ain reforms, and not a revision of them.
The question is whether the system will go much businesslike oregon simply much spacious.
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