The service also emphasizes that the project starts on a smaller scale, taking into account the concerns and comments of the residents.
According to the service, a new description of the procedure for transfer to the halfway house was approved, determining that the number of residents in the Kaunas prison halfway house will not exceed 10 in the first half of the year, and collars will be placed on all convicts during this period.
At the same time, it is committed to present half-way house activities to the Domeikava community following half a year.
“Amended legal acts also provide that persons convicted of violent and sexual crimes, as well as those who have committed crimes once morest a minor, cannot be transferred to the halfway house of the Kaunas prison. Monitoring of the environment and exits of the half-way house with video cameras has also been strengthened,” the service points out.
She also notes that it was already decided to abandon the plans to place a unit of the Lithuanian Probation Service near the half-way house, where parolees would visit. It was proposed to use the vacated premises for community purposes, to let non-governmental organizations into them.
“After making the above-mentioned decisions, the first convicts will settle in the halfway house of the Kaunas prison already this week”, according to the statement of the service.
The prison service’s plans to open a half-way house in Domeikava, near Kaunas, met with opposition from residents, Kaunas city and district municipalities. The people behind the petition call the halfway house an open prison. According to them, this facility, where up to 25 convicts would live permanently, would operate near apartment buildings, schools, and kindergartens.
Responding to concerns, Justice Minister Ewelina Dobrowolska, who met with the community at the end of November, presented new plans to reduce the scope of the project, taking into account the arguments of residents.
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2024-07-18 08:12:57
