First Swedish Prisoners Land in Estonia — but More than Half Have Been Rejected
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Attempted murder, kidnapping and torture, recruitment of children into crime, drug smuggling and serious weapons crimes. These are some of the crimes behind the prisoners that Sweden tried to send to Estonia. But after Expressen's revelation about how more than half were stopped, the Swedish Prison and Probation Service is now classifying all information about new Estonian prisoners.
Sweden entered into an agreement with the Baltic State in June 2025 to transfer several hundred prisoners there, a measure aimed at curbing prison overcrowding in the Nordic country, which is far from unanimous in Estonia, where the profile of prisoners is being debated.
Estonia Rejects Majority of Swedish Prisoners
Estonia has rejected more than half of the Swedish prisoners initially proposed for transfer to a prison in Tartu, citing links to organized crime and concerns about radicalization. The first Swedish prisoners nevertheless arrived in Estonia on Tuesday, August 18th, marking the start of the controversial cross-border prison arrangement. The first group of Swedish prisoners was flown across the Baltic Sea to Tartu on Tuesday as Sweden began using…
For the first time, Sweden transferred four prisoners to Estonia on 18 August 2026, for the sum of 8 500 euros per month and per prisoner. Could France, too, rent cells in other countries?
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