This will only get worse. More people outside will start committing crimes so they'll be in the comforts of a jail. Crazy times we're having.
Due to the economic crisis in Portugal, some prisoners are renouncing their rights to parole, preferring to stay in jail rather than be homeless and left living on the streets. Some are even committing crimes just to get back into prison.
This is according to José Mouraz Lopes, a magistrate and president of the Union Association of Portuguese judges, and as reported in El País in English.
He told the media: "In July I talked with two colleagues in charge of awarding parole at two Portuguese prisons and they confirmed it. I suppose there must be more. In my experience as a judge and a jurist, this had never happened in Portugal before."
Reportedly the General Directorate of Penitentiary Services "does not know" how many prisoners are rejecting their freedom.
This is according to José Mouraz Lopes, a magistrate and president of the Union Association of Portuguese judges, and as reported in El País in English.
He told the media: "In July I talked with two colleagues in charge of awarding parole at two Portuguese prisons and they confirmed it. I suppose there must be more. In my experience as a judge and a jurist, this had never happened in Portugal before."
Reportedly the General Directorate of Penitentiary Services "does not know" how many prisoners are rejecting their freedom.
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