Penology

Renowned surgeon who spent 4.5 years in Erdogan’s prisons for “terrorist acts” is the first Turkish scientist to become a member of Greece’s highest intellectual institution

The Justice Ministry has initiated efforts to establish specialized prisons and created dedicated areas within existing detention facilities for the treatment and rehabilitation of inmates with substance abuse issues, a senior official has announced.

Hungary's political landscape is rocked as President Katalin Novak steps down amidst mounting criticism for her decision to pardon a man convicted in a child sexual abuse case. The move follows intense pressure from both the public and opposition parties, culminating in a wave of protests demanding her resignation.

In an effort to ensure the effective implementation of its announced reforms in the field of criminal justice - particularly the regulation stating that penalties exceeding three years, for all offenses, will now be served - the government is working on a plan to establish new prisons nationwide.

Pola Roupa, a convicted member of the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group, was on Friday released from prison.

Reports say, Roupa, now 54, was granted conditional release on the grounds that she is the mother of an underage child.

The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) highlighted dire conditions at Korydallos Psychiatric Hospital for prisoners in a report issued on Thursday after an ad hoc visit last November. 

More than 9,000 inmates who left open prison on furlough during the COVID-19 pandemic and were due to return on Aug. 15 this year to serve the rest of their sentences have not returned.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, approximately 100,000 inmates were granted tentative parole and released from minimum-security prisons due to concerns about overcrowding and the pandemic's risks.

Turkish soldiers stand guard in front of the Silivri Prison in Istanbul, where many journalists and political prisoners are held. Photo: EPA-EFE/TOLGA BOZOGLU

In the year when it was abolished, half of the respondents supported the death penalty, in contrast to the present time, in which support for this method of punishment is around 70 percent, as shown by surveys of the association "Serbia against the death penalty".

BELGRADE - Speaking to reporters after last night's shooting spree in Mladenovac that left eight people dead, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he had proposed a reinstatement of the capital punishment but that the government was against the move.