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1 dzień temu · In the summer, Maia Sandu's lead looked confident and everyone expected a strong Yes vote in the EU accession referendum. In both cases, the margin of victory for the pro-Western forces was tiny.
5 gru 2011 · The EU helps rehabilitate prisoners by allowing them to serve their sentence in their home country. To do this, it has set up a system to transfer prisoners back to the EU country from which they come, the one they normally live in or with which they have close ties.
This study aims to provide the European Parliament with background information and policy recommendations concerning prisons and detention conditions in the European Union, on the basis of European and national regulations, legislation, policies and practices.
The EU has rules on the transfer of convicted persons to their home country, alternatives to pre-trial detention and custody, facilitating early release, and laws protecting the rights of suspects and the accused.
23 gru 2020 · The UK Government proposed in February 2020 that sentenced prisoner transfers with EU member states should continue after Brexit, but using a more ‘effective’ process than the existing CoE convention.
12 maj 2023 · In 2021, there were 475 038 prisoners in the EU, equivalent to 106 prisoners per 100 000 people. The prisoner rate increased after a decline in 2020 (104 prisoners per 100 000 people) but remained the second-lowest figure since the turn of the century.
The highest prisoner rates per 100 000 in the EU in 2022 were in Hungary (200), Poland (190), Czechia and Slovakia (181 both). The lowest rate was in Finland (52), followed by the Netherlands (64), and Slovenia (65).
