More Prisoners than Prisons: Sweden Sends Offenders to Estonia

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With nearly 85,000 prisoners and an occupation rate of more than 135 per cent, conditions of detention already very degraded or even unworthy and a chronic understaffing of prison staff, the crisis is increasing and heads of institutions fear fire.

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Sweden's prisons are hopelessly overcrowded. Now the country has agreed on a special type of outsourcing: it wants to accommodate several hundred prisoners in cells in Estonia.

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Up to 600 criminals from Sweden could come to Tartu starting next year. Alexander Welscher/dpa Seemingly endless corridors lead to the cells, which are locked with heavy metal doors and furnished with wooden furniture and bunk beds. At first glance, the prison wing in Estonia's second-largest city, Tartu, hardly differs from those in penitentiaries in other countries. And yet there are many things different there - and not just the light yellow …

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In Sweden, prisons are bursting from all seams, while in Estonia there is as much room as anywhere else in the EU. This leads to a special deal. A visit to Tartu prison.