110 Percent of Prisons Used: Experts Call for Alternatives to Detention

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Austria's prisons are used to around 110 percent. Experts suggest earlier layoffs and "Schwitzen instead of sitting" for relief.

Die Presse

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The situation in the Austrian prison is "as tense and critical as never before", warns the Network Criminal Policy.

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The Feldkirch Judicial Institute in Vorarlberg is chronically overcrowded, almost one fifth of the posts are vacant. The Judicial Guards' Union warns against permanent overload. Two deaths in Austria's prisons in recent weeks show how explosive the topic is.

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One-fifth of the posts are vacant in the Feldkirch Judicial Institute. Austria is not an isolated case: the Crime Policy Network is now calling for shorter detention.