New prison planned to help ease the shortfall of prison places in Slovakia

The project will be a public-private partnership.

Inside prisonInside prison (Source: Sme)

The Justice Ministry has received the green light for its project to build a new prison in Rimavská Sobota in central-southern Slovakia. The planned prison will increase the current capacity by 832 inmates and will cost approximately €58 million. The project still has to be okayed by the cabinet.

SkryťTurn off ads
Article continues after video advertisement
SkryťTurn off ads
Article continues after video advertisement

The project will be implemented as a public-private partnership (PPP) based on the stance taken by the Finance Ministry that the construction of a new prison via PPP is the cheapest option, the SITA newswire reported.

SkryťTurn off ads

The latest statistics show that the capacity of Slovakia’s prisons lacks 2,000 places for inmates overall. The paramount factor is the obligation of Slovakia to expand the space per inmate by 0.5 square metres which reduces the current capacity by as many as 1,320 places.

Read also: More than 200 foreigners sit in Slovak prisons Read more 

Currently Slovakia’s prisons house 8,657 sentenced prisoners and 1,501 people awaiting the outcome of trial. Slovakia also needs space to place Slovaks sentenced abroad who will be returned to Slovakia to serve their sentence here. The forecast therefore is that there will be a need for even more prison places in Slovakia in the future.

Top stories

Janka, a blogger, during the inauguration of the first flight to Athens with Aegean Airlines at the airport in Bratislava on September 14, 2023.

A Czech rail operator connects Prague and Ukraine, Dominika Cibulková endorses Pellegrini, and Bratislava events.


Píšem or pišám?

"Do ľava," (to the left) I yelled, "Nie, do prava" (no, to the right), I gasped. "Dolšie," I screamed. "Nie, nie, horšie..." My Slovak girlfriend collapsed in laughter. Was it something I said?


Matthew J. Reynolds
Czech biochemist Jan Konvalinka.

Jan Konvalinka was expecting a pandemic before Covid-19 came along.


SkryťClose ad