Greece Unable to Send Foreign Prisoners Home

More BANANIA land stories. According to press reports the State is finding it very difficult to deport prisoners from other countries to their homelands because this requires the consent of the inmates, and obviously they are not willing to comply.

When asked why detainees are not being returned to their countries of origin, Deputy Justice Minister Costas Karagounis said on Thursday that Greece had a number of bilateral agreements for inmates to serve their sentences in their homelands but the pacts had proved ineffective.

He added that Tirana had rebuffed several offers from Athens to construct a prison on Albanian soil at the cost of Greek taxpayers so Albanian inmates could serve their time there rather than in Greek jails.
   
(That is no surprise. It is easier to escape Greek jails that's why.)