“Twenty prison administrations released more than 118,000 inmates to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the first month of lockdown”, reveals the special SPACE I report ‘Prisoners in Europe in Pandemic Times’ by the University of Lausanne for the Council of Europe.
Published this Thursday, this document states that between mid-March and mid-April, 20 out of 43 prison administrations resorted to measures such as general pardons, early or provisional release and other alternatives to...