Italy is working to reach an agreement with Albania so that Albanian prisoners in Italy can serve their sentences in their country in exchange for professional training.

This was announced by the head of the Prison Administration Department, Giovanni Russo, at the Justice Commission, as he spoke about the overcrowding of prisons in Italy.

“At a cost of €34 a day for every Albanian prisoner incarcerated in its prisons. The United Kingdom has struck a deal with Albania to serve its sentence in its own country. This came to our mind, Russo explained, to make the same agreement with some modifications: not to send money to Albania, but to offer penitentiary-type services”.

According to him, there are currently 60,814 prisoners in Italian prisons, with an increase of about 400 more prisoners every month.