In the future, the Danish Prison and Probation Service will try to recruit workers from outside Denmark to ensure more staff in the prisons. The initiative is causing controversy both internally within the agreement group and externally.
In the future, Danish prison officers can look forward to foreign colleagues.
The new penal reform, which the SVM government and a broad cross-section of both red and blue parties presented on Wednesday morning, heralds a new recruitment effort abroad for more prison officers who will help fulfill the political promise to increase the number of prison places by 2,000 by 2036.
