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Sweden Did Not Close Its Prisons

Osama SaleemOsama Saleem
date
29th May 2020
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11:16 pm
29th March 2021
Sweden Did Not Close Its Prisons
Officials predicted that more offenders would be detained because of new legal regulations (Getty)

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A claim that Sweden has closed its main prisons due to the lack of crime and that the "remaining prisons" are in luxury hotels has been making the rounds on social media.

According to the claim circulated by several Arab news sites, Sweden's prison administration has decided to close four prisons, and the head of the Swedish prison department stated that they decided to close the prisons because they do not need them anymore.

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