Prison

Justice

13.June 2026 Andreas Noll / DW

Sweden: Prison for children?

In the fight against the escalation of gang crime, Sweden plans to prosecute 13-year-olds as well, as well as send them to prison in more serious cases. Other EU countries also have a low age limit

Prison

Prokuplje

03.June 2026 KS

Escape from prison in Prokuplje under the veil of secrets

Two prisoners escaped from the District Prison in Prokuplje almost three weeks ago, but the public still has no answers to the key questions - who are the escapees, how did they manage to escape and whether anyone will be held accountable for possible security breaches

Detention, prison

Inner voice

28.January 2026 Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

Close in us

Great and lasting sufferings, I dare say, and mental disorders are often the result of experiences and feelings that we carry inside and cannot get rid of, so important that everything in us begins to gravitate around them or even get sucked into them. And we feel a terrible constraint, or fanaticism, purity, prohibition, guilt, which started so early that now they seem to us as something of ours, "second nature", inseparable from how we perceive ourselves. Many people then, disappointed that they are not strong enough to overcome something, withdraw from the world, indulge in vices, drink drugs, and the problem could be that they are carrying someone else's pain inside them all the time.

Criminal Law

16.September 2025 NM

Proposal to amend the Criminal Code: You block the street, you go to prison

The government is planning to push through an amendment to the Criminal Code so that roadblocks would not be defined a priori as a criminal offense that entails a prison sentence. The goal is to intimidate citizens who have been protesting against lawlessness for over ten months

Punta Peuco: Conditions more like a spa than a prison

Two-class prisons

06.June 2025 NR

A thousand years of imprisonment in a "hotel"

Latin America is full of privileged prisoners - they have swimming pools and tennis courts while serving sentences for the most serious crimes. Chilean President Gabriel Borić would like to change that

The case of Marija Vasić

19.May 2025. IN THE

The European Commission is worried about Marija Vasić's health, the authorities claim that she is fine

After several days of hunger and thirst strike, detained professor Marija Vasić was transferred to the Special Prison Hospital in Belgrade, where she was connected to an infusion, announced the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions. On the other hand, the European Commission expressed concern about the deterioration of the health condition and called the authorities in Serbia to account

Justice slow but attainable

14.October 2024 IN THE

Former mayor of Grocka Dragoljub Simonović in "Zabela" prison

Milan Jovanović, a journalist from the Žig info portal, expressed the hope that the verdict against the former president of the municipality of Grocka, Dragoljub Simonović, who is serving a prison sentence for instigating the burning of his house, will contribute to better protection of journalists in Serbia.