Denmark: Cramped, old prisons need changing

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In some cases, prisoners only have small windows providing little daylight, air circulation and a really bad wifi connection

Cramped, old prisons need changing
February 9, 2015
by Dwayne Mamo

Denmark has a worldwide reputation for having soft prisons, but according to the president of the prison association some of them are anything but.

Kim Østerbye, the president of Fængselsforbundets, has said that conditions at ten Zealand prisons are so bad that inmates and staff are crammed together in old buildings that no longer serve their needs.

He further adds that inmates spend most of the hours in a day in small cells with almost no daylight.

”The existing detention centres are built for another time,” he told DR Sjælland. ”There is too little space for joint activities. Inmates are allowed to stay in their small cells most of the day, except for one hour of recreation time.”