EU Ministers Meet on Prison Virus Risks Amid Inmate Releases

Council of Europe urges ‘all available alternatives’ to prison
U.K. to release 4,000 inmates nearing end of their sentences

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By Hugo Miller, Jonathan Browning, and Stephanie Bodoni

April 5, 2020 at 2:08 PM UTC

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April 6, 2020 at 1:59 PM UTC

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European Union justice ministers met to discuss the best way to manage the risk of Covid-19 outbreaks in prisons and detention centers as Europe remains the epicentre of the global coronavirus outbreak with more than 37,000 deaths in Italy, Spain and France.