Security at Greece’s prisons is being tightened

Increasing inspections at Greece's prisons, making the terms of furlough stricter, transferring dangerous criminals to facilities outside cities, relocating the capital's Korydallos Prison and introducing more programs to help inmates are all part of an ambitious prison reform program being overseen by the general secretary for crime policy at the Citizens' Protection Ministry, Sofia Nikolaou.

"Our main priority is to tighten the regime for transferring detainees to rural detention facilities in order to stop escapes," Nikolaou tells Kathimerini, revealing that more than 200 convicts have absconded while on furlough in the past four years.
 

Prisons were placed under the jurisdiction of the Citizens' Protection Ministry to halt the operation of gangs within these facilities. How do you evaluate your actions in this area?

From the outset,...