Up to 149 Percent: Austria's Prisons Are Overloaded
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der Standard DEExperts see a vicious circle of short prison sentences, increasing number of inmates and more and more forensic therapeutic centers.
There are no detention centres and judicial guards. Experts and the Ministry of Justice are filing new discharge plans for the cells.
The situation in the Josefstadt Judicial Institute is tense: overcrowding greatly sharpens working conditions, the union criticized. Violence is also increasing in other overcrowded prisons, so the Crime Policy Network is raising the alarm.
According to the Network Kriminalpolitik, Austria's prisons are heavily overcrowded. At a press conference in Vienna, the initiative presents proposals on how the number of inmates could be reduced in the short, medium and long term.
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