Salis, Kràmer: “Hungarian prisons have huge human rights issues but the government want them harsher

The criminologist who works for the Hungarian Helsinki Committee: “The prison population is increasing”

CRONACA (Budapest). “In 2015, the European Court of Human Rights found that Hungarian prisons have huge human rights issues. There’s a structural problem of detention conditions, including prisons are overcrowded. This problem has persisted since then, and even longer ago, which is related to the fact that more and more people get into prison and less and less of them get out of prison. So we have a rising prison population. The other thing is that alternatives to imprisonment are not used enough. So the government is not investing in maintaining a good system of alternatives to imprisonment in general. And there’s a criminalization of poverty going on. So some people get into prison because they didn’t pay a sign, and that’s a problem. So we get a lot of complaints about these substandard sanitation conditions. Unfortunately, this government has never engaged in talking about why it would be nice to have human humane prison conditions. On the contrary, they have always spoken about harsh conditions. We don’t care about criminals. And so public opinion many times follows these political statements. And I should say that people don’t know a lot about what’s happening in prisons. So they have something in mind. Maybe that hard criminals are there and only them and they deserve anything they get. But we need to change that on a European level because unfortunately, good prison conditions require a lot of investment. And I think we should concentrate more on on the European level because a lot of other prison systems also have a problem like this”. that’s what the criminologist Lili Krámer, Hungarian Helsinki Committee, an Hungarian Ngo specialised in Human Rights said about the hungarian prisons (Stefano Chianese/alanews)

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