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Prisons should be built faster with new rules

The Government is open to relaxing building permit regulations to enable the construction of new prisons faster. The construction time is estimated to be reduced by several years.

Prisons should be built faster with new rules

Proposal: Ankle Tag and Body Search at Sis

Football, entrance controls and extended opportunities for body and room searches are proposed for the supervision of children and young people at Sis-homes. These are new tools that have really been needed in Sis' toolbox for a long time, says Minister for Social Affairs Camilla Waltersson Grönvall (The Moderate Party).

Proposal: Ankle Tag and Body Search at Sis

Prison officer had a child with released rapist

A prison officer at a correctional facility in central Sweden became pregnant with a former inmate – who had served a sentence for multiple rapes. Now she is being punished with a one-month salary deduction, reports Dagens Juridik.

Prison officer had a child with released rapist

The Prison and Probation Service is expanding in Skåne

The Prison and Probation Service is expanding in several locations in Skåne, the authority announces on its website. In Tollarp, a former elderly home is being converted into a new open prison with 110 places.

The Prison and Probation Service is expanding in Skåne

More criminals to be caught abroad

The Government wants several authorities to do more to tackle criminals abroad who operate in Sweden. I hope this will result in us simply seeing more criminal leaders being detected, arrested, prosecuted, and punished for the serious crimes they commit, says Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (The Moderate Party).

More criminals to be caught abroad

Full Capacity – Convicts Waiting for a Place

The pressure on forensic psychiatry is record-high. Convicted criminals are on the loose because they cannot be accommodated when clinics are overcrowded.

Full Capacity – Convicts Waiting for a Place

Prison Management Received Threatening Letters with Cartridges

Several people in the management at the institution in Skänninge have received threatening letters addressed to them. Nine letters that arrived on August 13 contained cartridges, reports [P4 Östergötland](https://sverigesradio.

Prison Management Received Threatening Letters with Cartridges

New police officers to avoid student loans

The Government allocates SEK 3. 5 billion to the judicial system in the budget for next year.

New police officers to avoid student loans

The Prison and Probation Service: Wise to go in that direction

The Director-General of the Prison and Probation Service, Martin Holmgren, would like to see an extended possibility of electronic tagging at home. It is something that we ourselves have proposed, he says.

The Prison and Probation Service: Wise to go in that direction