#overcrowding

By Alexandros Clerides Every year we hear that the prison is overpopulated without any actions being taken. At the same time, for so many years inmates in the Central Prison ...

The north’s central prison is currently housing over 200 more inmates than its stated capacity, according to its director Fatih Erdogan. Speaking to a panel of judges, Erdogan said the ...

MPs on Monday expressed concern about overpopulation at the central prisons as well as the absence of full-time psychiatrists, while the justice minister hinted at the creation of an ‘observatory’ ...

Appalling conditions and overcrowding at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital resurfaced on Tuesday, following the publication of pictures of the facility on social media. Increased admissions, medicine shortages, chronic understaffing, and ...

Proposals from the justice ministry to decongest prisons will be sent to the president next week, Justice Minister Anna Procopiou said on Friday. “The president will assess the proposals that ...

Members of the prison guards’ union Isotita sent a letter to Justice Minister Anna Procopiou urging her to take measures against the issue of overcrowding in the Nicosia central prison. “...

Cyprus is amongst the worst offenders in Europe for prison overcrowding as it ranks the fourth highest, while a report release on Thursday called on states with chronic overcrowding to ...

Cyprus saw a near 30 per cent fall in its incarceration rate from 2020 to 2021, but still has one of Europe’s most overcrowded prisons according to the Council of Europe’s ...

Overcrowding is forcing Paphos schools to share facilities and new schools need to be built urgently, district president of the teacher’s union (Oelmek) Giorgos Yiallouris said on Saturday. He ...

Cyprus registered the fourth highest prison population density in Europe in 2020, new research has shown. According to the Council of Europe’s Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations for 2020, made ...