Denmark intends to send 300 foreign prisoners to Kosovo
The Danish government intends to sign an agreement with the Albanian regime in Pristina to rent a prison for three hundred of its foreign prisoners.
This was reported by Danmarks Radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
As announced by the Danish Ministry of Justice, it is planned to send foreigners who were sentenced to deportation from the country after serving their prison sentences to Kosovo. A similar project became part of an agreement between the Danish government, several opposition parties and the administration of Danish prisons. However, two parties supporting the government - the Red-Green Alliance and the Social Liberal Party - opposed it.
Red-Green Alliance spokeswoman Rosa Lund said the government had turned the prison issue into an immigration policy issue and that there were better ways to deal with the prison capacity problem. True, she did not say what measures these were.
In turn, the Social Liberal Party noted that the Kosovo penitentiary system has repeatedly been criticized for corruption, violence among prisoners and poorly trained staff.
The project also plans to increase the capacity of the Danish prison system by 326 places between 2022 and 2025.
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