One day on the institution cost during last the year SEK 3,773. Lawyer Marko Tuhkanen believes that resources should also be invested in integrating the criminals into society, once they have been released from prison.
– We are prepared to spend a lot of money on prison, but then it must not cost anything.
Tuhkanen also believes that the inmates should be prepared for a legal life after prison, in a better way than today.
– It should be possible to use the prison stay to educate yourself in a better way than today, so that you have different skills when you get out of prison than before you went in, he says.
“Without an outlet, it’s really tough”
Prison chaplain Hanna Backman works with conversation support for the inmates at the SIS home and at the Hall institution. According to her, there are many inmates who would like to leave crime behind them. The problem, says Backman, is that there is no real opportunity to do so because the current system does not work.
– Without an outlet, it’s very tough. One’s life is shaped by who meets one outside the prison gates, she says.
Marko Tuhkanen and Hanna Backman were guests 15 minutes from Uutiset, which deals with juvenile delinquency now and then.