Five years ago to the day, a wide-ranging amnesty declared by then
president Václav Klaus came into effect, freeing more than 6,000 of the
Czech Republic’s prisoners from jail. The move helped to ease the
overcrowding in Czech prisons, but only temporarily. Today, prison
capacity
is filled up 106 percent.
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