Greek Prisons

To ensure better security 200-250 guards will be hired, and mobile phone jammers will be installed so as to block the communication of inmates with accomplices outside.

Much has been said and written about the problems with the education system and that debate is necessary in order to improve it. The time has now come to hold a public debate on how to address the conditions in Greek prisons.

Once again, newspapers and journalists who reveal the wretched conditions in jails are to blame, and not the ministry that is responsible for the security of prisons and inmates.

It is indicative that, based on data presented to parliament by the justice ministry, in the 2015-2018 period, there were 341 prisoners released based on handicaps, out of whom 323 availed themselves of the provisions of the Paraskevopoulos law.