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Kriminalvården

14 Mar

Escaped from detention center with stolen vehicle

Two men have escaped from the Migration Agency's detention center in Åstorp during the night. A stolen work vehicle has been driven into the building and smashed a window.

Sweden

13 Mar

Staffing reduced as more are to be imprisoned

A tripling of places in remand prisons and institutions awaits the Prison and Probation Service over the next ten years. To manage the enormous expansion, the authority is forced to reduce staffing density by 30 percent, according to a new report. We already have an extremely strained situation today, says the Chairman of the Trade Union Seko.

Sweden

Top news10 Mar

At Least 20 Murdered Women Last Year – Meeting About Violence

Violence against women continues in Sweden – and in 2024, at least 20 women were murdered. On Monday, a number of authority heads met to discuss how preventive work can be strengthened. We want to go further and we do that in collaboration with other authorities, says National Police Commissioner Petra Lundh.

Crime

10 Mar

Prison staff forgot to lock up over 100 times

Doors, gates, and cabinets were left unlocked 116 times at Ersbodaanstalten in Umeå last year, reports P4 Västerbotten.

Sweden

5 Mar

Sweden's New Strategy to Help Youth Exit Crime Networks

It is still few children and young people who get support to leave the criminal life, simply because the authorities do not find them. Now, the police have developed a new internal support material to make it easier for them to be identified.

Sweden

Top news2 Mar

Swedish prisons: Two Inmates on Six Square Meters

The smallest cells in Swedish prisons are now approved for double occupancy. Two inmates can thus be forced to share a floor area of six square meters. The increased overcrowding in prisons is described by the union as "a ticking bomb".

Sweden

Top news25 Feb

Want to be able to lock up the Ghost Man for an indeterminate period

Both "The Ghost Man" and "The Nytorget Man" were suspected of new sexual offenses shortly after being conditionally released. Legal expert Sven-Erik Alhem now hopes that the law will be changed. It is absolutely obvious that something more is needed, he says.

Sweden

Top news23 Feb

More Violence and Threats in Prisons

Violence and threats between inmates at prisons continued to increase last year. The violence has also become more severe, warns the Prison and Probation Service.

Sweden