{"id":1502241,"date":"2024-11-14T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1502241"},"modified":"2024-11-14T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T13:30:00","slug":"switzerland-67-of-prisoners-are-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/switzerland-67-of-prisoners-are-foreigners\/1502241\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland: 67% Of Prisoners Are Foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Switzerland: 67% Of Prisoners Are Foreigners<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/switzerland-67-of-prisoners-are-foreigners\/\"><em>Via Remix News,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Last year, Switzerland imprisoned 9,297 people, with 67 percent of them foreigners,<\/strong> according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfs.admin.ch\/bfs\/en\/home\/statistics\/crime-criminal-justice\/surveys\/fhe.html\">Swiss Federal Statistical Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2024-11-13_15-50-47.jpg?itok=3wX5VcNH\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The number of foreigners in the prison population has tripled since the 1980s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The vast majority of prisoners are incarcerated for minor offenses, such as petty theft.<\/strong> In some cases, if offenders are unable or unwilling to pay a fine, they can be incarcerated in Switzerland. Many prisoners are serving sentences between five and 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear the exact breakdown of the foreign prison population in 2023. <strong>Switzerland has many foreign European nationals residing in the country, but many of those arrested and imprisoned are non-EU nationals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea In many German states, half the prison population is now made up of foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd3aGermany spends \u20ac1.8 billion a year on its exploding foreign prison population, out of a total of \u20ac4.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd3aForeign national prisoners are mostly from Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XBA4XpV7UQ\">pic.twitter.com\/XBA4XpV7UQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RMXnews\/status\/1844007345002594795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2020, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/switzerland\/two-thirds-of-swiss-inmates-were-foreigners-in-2020\/\">greatest share of foreigners in Swiss prisons were Algerians<\/a>. In second place were Romanians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Germany,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/crime\/over-half-of-german-prisoners-are-migrants-equaling-24259-inmates\/\">over half of the prison population is made up of foreigners<\/a>, and they are costing German taxpayers nearly \u20ac2 billion per year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/switzerland-67-of-prisoners-are-foreigners\/\"><em>Read more here&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Thu, 11\/14\/2024 &#8211; 03:30<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/switzerland-67-prisoners-are-foreigners\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/switzerland-67-prisoners-are-foreigners<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland: 67% Of Prisoners Are Foreigners Via Remix News, Last year, Switzerland imprisoned 9,297 people, with 67 percent of them foreigners, according to the\u00a0Swiss Federal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1502242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1502242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}