Unlike a regular class of 30 students, they will sit in groups of four or five. The prison service has qualified teachers and there will be counselors. So yes, I think they have a better chance of completing their education here in a prison than in school outside, Melin tells the newspaper in connection with a visit to Högsboanstalten in southern Gothenburg.
Minors (15–17 years old) who are currently convicted of murder or other serious crimes are placed in Si's youth home, but from July 2026 they will be able to be placed in prison instead.
The SIS homes have not functioned as they should, says Liberal Party leader Simona Mohamsson, who also visited Högsbo. It is one of the institutions being prepared to receive the children.
"We are in an extreme situation in Sweden, where we have 13, 14, 15-year-olds shooting on our streets. Then it is too late to come in with band-aids, then you have to sit here and have a functioning schooling," Mohamsson tells DN.
The government has proposed lowering the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 13 years and has instructed the Swedish Prison and Probation Service to prepare places in prisons for 13- and 14-year-olds convicted of particularly serious crimes.
