The prison where inmates work, receive a salary and even have days off

Nail jail of Sweden presented a new method to be applied in the 60 trap What’s wrong with that. They are responsible for watering the flowers, repainting the fences, mowing the lawn and even tending the livestock as part of a reintegration program.

This is the penitentiary establishment Rodjan, located 300 kilometers from Stockholm, and it is the oldest of the three in the country. Currently, Sweden is the country with the fewest prisoners in the world, with 0.5 inmate for each thousand inhabitants.

Moreover, from this system applied by Rödjan, the Scandinavian country seeks formulas to avoid imprisonment, such as prove probation In recent months, the widespread use of the electronic bracelet, condemns her to community service and systematizes parole after two-thirds of the completion of the sentence.

Within reintegration programs, the language teaching and the professional training.

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This is how prisoners work 35 hours per week, paid to 13 crowns per hour ($ 1.50) and they have two days off per week.

This prison, of category 3, is one of the establishments considered with a level of security “low”, since categories 1 and 2 correspond to levels “high” Yes “half”.

Britt-Marie Johansson, the head of the establishment, explained that Rödjan “has no cameras, barriers, barbed wire and the detainees can move around freely”. “We count the number of prisoners every morning, day and night, we know where they are at all times,” he said.

The official added that “if they do something wrong, they are sent to a center with a higher level of security.”

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In addition, if the inmates “know that there are cows that are going to give birth, even if they are resting, they can call and ask” How was it? Did the calf behave well? ”, Explained Johansson.

Not for nothing in 2012, the prison received an award from the hands of king Charles XVI for the quality of your milk. Currently, the recidivism rate in Sweden is 30%.