Abstract
The Slovenian prison administration was established in 1995 to manage six prisons, which are separate facilities operating in 14 different locations, and one correctional home. Differentiation of imprisoned persons is in force based on gender, age, nature of the sentence, duration of the sentence, and degree of security. Despite the prioritization of a security component, a strong rehabilitation model is still present in the operation of the individual prisons. The Slovenian prison system has been challenged with an increasing prison population in recent years, which has caused overcrowding in several of the prisons. The prison population increased by more than 40% over the period 2005–2016. The structure of the prison population shows that prisoners sentenced for property crime present almost half of the prison population in Slovenia, followed by those who were sentenced for crimes against life and limb, and crimes against human health (mostly drug-related offenses). The number of prison workers increased by approximately 6% in the period 2005–2016. Prison officers present the largest group of prison workers in Slovenia (approximately 60%).
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In 2014, the Constitutional court of the Republic of Slovenia ruled that prison sentences for committed misdemeanors must be abolished (Ustavno sodišče Republike Slovenije 2014).
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Prison population reflects the changes of the Slovenian penal policy. In general, the number of criminal offenses detected by the police remained relatively stable from 2005 to 2016 (approximately 90,000 recorded criminal offences per year). In the same period, the number of conditional convictions decreased from 5,629 in 2005 to 4,903 in 2016, while the numbers of prison sentences increased from 1,299 in 2005 to 1,396 in 2016 and fines from 37 in 2005 to 309 in 2016 (Plesničar and Drobnjak 2019).
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Hacin, R., Meško, G. (2020). The Slovenian Prison System. In: The Dual Nature of Legitimacy in the Prison Environment. SpringerBriefs in Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32843-6_5
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