The Danish Prison and Probation Service will, in the future, seek to recruit workers from outside Denmark to ensure more staff in prisons. This initiative is causing division both within the agreement circle and beyond.
In the future, Danish prison officers will have to get used to working alongside new foreign colleagues.
The new penal reform, presented Wednesday morning by the SVM government and a broad coalition of both red and blue parties, heralds a new international recruitment effort for more prison officers to fulfill the political promise of increasing prison capacity by 2,000 places by 2036.
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