Switzerland: 67% of prisoners are foreigners

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Posted on 11/14/2024 5:32:33 AM PST by george76

The vast majority of prisoners in Switzerland are foreigners..

Last year, Switzerland imprisoned 9,297 people, with 67 percent of them foreigners, according to the Swiss Federal Statistical Office. The number of foreigners in the prison population has tripled since the 1980s.

Men still account for the vast majority of offenders, accounting for 90.6 percent of all prisoners, while 9.4 percent of all prisoners are women.

The rate of foreigners in Swiss prisons has remained relatively stable over the last 10 years, but the overall number of prisoners has also jumped significantly.

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many of those arrested and imprisoned are non-EU nationals.

In 2020, the greatest share of foreigners in Swiss prisons were Algerians. In second place were Romanians.

In Germany, over half of the prison population is made up of foreigners, and they are costing German taxpayers nearly €2 billion per year.

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German states, half the prison population is now made up of foreigners.

🔺Germany spends €1.8 billion a year on its exploding foreign prison population, out of a total of €4.1 billion.

🔺Foreign national prisoners are mostly from Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Romania, Algeria, Morocco, and Poland.

🔺The states with the most foreign prisoners are Hamburg (57.8%) and Berlin (56.4%).

1 posted on 11/14/2024 5:32:33 AM PST by george76

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