Kriminalvården

The Police Should Inform About Repatriation Grants

Immigrants who encounter the police next year may be informed about the return allowance. The government points out four authorities that will help the Migration Agency to inform about the allowance.

Care Company Stopped Due to Gang Contacts

Criticism: Lawyers forced to undress at the detention center

The Bar Association directs sharp criticism towards how the Prison and Probation Service controls lawyers who are to enter remand prisons. This reports Dagens Juridik. "Completely unreasonable and offensive" says the Bar Association's General Secretary Mia Edwall Insulander to the newspaper.

Prisons being prepared for criminal children

Up to 250 children and young people can soon move into some of Sweden's high-security institutions. The Prison and Probation Service is preparing to receive young people who have murdered or committed other serious crimes and hold them in custody without violating their rights as children.

Sweden may send prisoners to Estonia

The Government is holding talks with Estonia about renting prison spaces there, reports SR Ekot.

Considered too dangerous for interview - released anyway

The Unions on the Notification Requirement: We Have Been Heard

Several authorities are exempt from the so-called "informant law", according to the government's investigator's proposal. This is welcomed by the affected trade unions. It seems like they have listened to us, says Sacos chairman Göran Arrius to TT.

Multiple professional groups are exempt from notification requirement

The Government's investigator proposes several exemptions from the obligation to report individuals residing in Sweden without a permit. The coalition parties agree that schools, healthcare, social services, and libraries should be exempt from the proposed information obligation, says Migration Minister Johan Forssell (The Moderate Party).