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Prisoners to be electronically tagged to stem rising number of inmates
Electronic tagging for minor crime convictions will ease prison population which now stands at over 860 inmates
19 April 2021, 7:04am
by Kurt Sansone
Electronic tagging of people sentenced to jail terms of not more than one year for minor crimes is being considered by government, MaltaToday has learnt.
Legislation is being drafted that will allow magistrates to decide whether a person handed down an effective jail term should serve time outside prison. The law could be presented to parliament as early as next month.
The system is being viewed as a means to help rehabilitation but it is also expected to ease some of the pressure from the prison facility, which has a problem of overpopulation.
Aborigines make up 29% of Oz’s prisoners, yet only 3% of its population ‘Political will and strong leadership seem to be missing in enacting 30-year-old report into jailed indigenous people’ By Melanie Burton - 17 April 2021 Protesters rally to mark a national day of action, protesting against aboriginal deaths in police custody, in Sydney, Australia. Image: REUTERS/ JAIMI JOY
Aboriginal deaths in custody in Australia and high incarceration rates came under a harsh spotlight from indigenous groups and policymakers on Thursday as they marked the 30th anniversary of a report on an issue that has become a source of national shame.
Aboriginal people make up about 3% of Australia’s population, but about 29% of its prison population, up from 14% when the Royal Commission report came out in 1991.
Imprisonment rates continue to fall, find the latest Council of Europe penal statistics, although the report says this is due to the inability to prosecute cyber-enabled criminal offences rather than a shift away from incarceration as a form of punishment. Drug offences remain the reason for most convictions leading to imprisonment, making up 17.7% of the total prison population. The CoE press release also highlights that overcrowding remains a serious problems in a number of member states.
Europe’s imprisonment rate continues to fall:
Council of Europe’s annual penal statistics released Strasbourg, (MOREL) – The overall European imprisonment rate- the number of persons in prison per 100,000 inhabitants - fell again slightly in 2020, consolidating a trend that started in 2013, according to the Council of Europe’s Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations for 2020, released today (see also the Key findings). On 31 January 2020, there were 1,528,343 inmates in 51 prison administrations (out of 52) of the Council of Europe member states, which corresponds to a European prison population rate of 103.2 inmates per 100,000 inhabitants. In the 50 prison administrations for which data are available for both 2019 and 2020 this rate fell from 106.1 to 104.3 inmates per 100,000 inhabitants (-1.7%).