2024-06-01 00:35:23
The Danish jail system is overloaded. Now the nation is taking an uncommon step.
Kosovo’s parliament has authorised an settlement to lease 300 jail cells to Denmark to alleviate overcrowded Danish prisons. In response to parliamentary speaker Glauk Konjufca, 86 MPs voted in favor of the settlement and 7 towards it on Thursday.
In response to the settlement, Kosovo will obtain round 200 million euros in return for the lease over the subsequent ten years. The sum shall be used to enhance prisons and to finance tasks within the discipline of renewable vitality.
The prisoners shall be despatched to a jail within the metropolis of Gjilan, round 50 kilometers from the capital Pristina. In response to the settlement, prisoners convicted of terrorism and conflict crimes, in addition to these affected by psychological sickness, is not going to be despatched to Kosovo.
Denmark’s Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard stated the settlement was “essential” to securing extra jail locations for Denmark and “rebalancing our closely strained jail system”.
The variety of prisoners in Denmark has elevated by virtually 20 p.c since 2015 and stood at greater than 4,000 in the beginning of 2021 – which means that prisons are greater than 100% full based on official figures. Throughout the identical interval, the variety of jail guards fell by 18 p.c.
The mannequin of letting prisoners serve their sentences overseas is just not new – Norway and Belgium had beforehand rented jail cells within the Netherlands.