Stockholm:
The Swedish authorities stated Wednesday that it was analyzing the opportunity of sending some inmates to serve their sentences in prisons overseas, anticipating heavy strain by itself prisons within the coming years.
Sweden has struggled in recent times to rein in shootings and bombings linked to score-settling between rival felony gangs.
Perpetrators are sometimes younger teenagers who’re employed as contract killers as a result of they’re underneath 15, the age of felony accountability in Sweden.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s centre-right minority authorities, which is backed in parliament by the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, got here to energy in 2022 with a vow to get robust on crime.
“One concrete consequence of this alteration is that extra individuals can be incarcerated and for longer intervals, which is able to result in elevated strain on the Swedish jail system,” Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer instructed a press convention Tuesday.
Strommer spoke as he acquired a authorities on the feasibility of prisoners serving time overseas.
“Our advice is that this must be achieved throughout the EU or throughout the Schengen space,” stated Mattias Wahlstedt, who headed the probe, with out giving any particular examples.
This observe has already been adopted by some international locations together with Norway, Belgium and Denmark.
Wahlstedt added that agreements negotiated between Sweden and the international locations involved must be permitted by parliament.
The Seko commerce union, which amongst others represents jail workers, stated Tuesday that it opposed the federal government’s plan.
“Public providers shouldn’t be outsourced to different international locations. This can be a matter of authorized necessities, however additionally it is about stopping state actions from being offered off and run underneath personal administration,” Christer Hallkvist, answerable for labour negotiations for jail workers at Seko, stated in an announcement.
“Higher circumstances for workers and extra jail locations in Sweden are what’s going to resolve the issues within the Swedish Jail and Probation Service,” he added.
In latest weeks, Sweden has seen a surge in violence, with greater than 30 bombings for the reason that begin of the yr.
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