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Ali Demi prison will house the "most dangerous" Albanian criminals expelled from Britain, function as an open prison

2024-10-02 17:10:14Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
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Britain is helping to open a new prison that will cost millions of euros in Albania.

UK correctional officers have worked with their Albanian counterparts to develop the country's first open prison following a £4 million-a-year prisoner transfer agreement between Albania and Britain.

Britain is paying Albania the money to bring back the 200 most dangerous Albanian prisoners, as well as funding prison officer training, prison renovation, extra security, workshops and rehabilitation equipment.

The UK has also paid for a £1.5m fleet of 15 electric cars and 22 minivans to help improve Albania's prison service.

It is part of the English government's efforts to tackle the overcrowding crisis in prisons in England and Wales.

There are about 1,270 Albanians held in prisons in England and Wales, the largest number of any nationality and accounting for nearly one in seven of the 10,500 foreign prisoners.

The 10,500 foreign prisoners are occupying one in nine places in prisons at a cost of £52,000 per person, or nearly £550m. That is why British ministers are trying to find ways to repatriate them to their countries.

The new Albanian open prison, called Ali Demi prison and based in Tirana, will be targeted at offenders in the final six months of their custment, where it will emulate similar institutions in the UK.

A team of UK prisoner service managers and technical experts have advised on planning and regime for the new prison, where prisoners will have their rooms set on a terraced-style street with freedom to come and go.

It was originally a women's prison with a "softer" regime designed to rehabilitate and reintegrate them into Albanian society. There will now be space for 25 male prisoners.

Klevis Qose, the director general of the Albanian prison service, said: "We are ready to populate the open prison of Ali Demi, the newest prison in Albania.

"The project funded by the Albanian government and with the support of the British Embassy in Tirana for increasing and strengthening human resources capacity is expected to prepare offenders to adapt to civilian life as naturally as possible," he said.

Open prison can be used by the most serious Albanian offenders transferred from Britain by the end of sentence.

Under the two-year agreement, criminals – all serving sentences of more than four years – complete imprisonment in Albania at a cost of £32 a day, compared to £109 a day in Britain.

The 200 prisoners include murderers, rapists and drug dealers, who will be transferred to "wholesale" groups to be processed in the Albanian prison system, where they will serve the same sentence time as they would in Britain.

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