UK is mulling over options to ease overcrowding in prisons and considers Estonian jails as one destination for inmates, The Times reports.
Alex Chalk, the UK justice secretary, said that he is considering how other countries have rented cells abroad in the past, including Norway and Belgium. Estonia is one of the countries that the UK government is in talks with and Chalk visited the country in the summer.
UK is mulling over options to ease overcrowding in prisons and considers Estonian jails as one destination for inmates, The Times reports.
Alex Chalk, the UK justice secretary, said that he is considering how other countries have rented cells abroad in the past, including Norway and Belgium. Estonia is one of the countries that the UK government is in talks with and Chalk visited the country in the summer.
Ministries in Estonia are starting to implement energy cost-saving measures on agencies or organizations which are subordinate to them, with cuts viable in some areas more than others.
The Ministry of Justice is preparing a draft bill to change the way healthcare is provided to prisoners In the future, the Ministry of Justice would only be responsible for ensuring that inmates serve their time, while the Health Insurance Fund (EHIF) would finance and administer their healthcare.