KD stödjer kraftig utbyggnad av fängelsekapacitet.
Law & order
Law & order
Sweden should expand high-security prison capacity significantly.
Of the 8 Riksdag parties, 6 broadly agree and 2 broadly disagree.
Where the parties stand
Riksdag parties
L stödjer kraftig utbyggnad av fängelsekapaciteten.
M är ledande för kraftig utbyggnad av fängelsekapacitet.
SD är pådrivande för kraftig utbyggnad av fängelsekapacitet.
C accepterar utbyggd fängelsekapacitet i ljuset av gängbrottsligheten.
S har accepterat utökad fängelsekapacitet i sin brottsbekämpningspolitik.
MP betonar prevention framför fängelseutbyggnad.
V prioriterar prevention och rehabilitering framför fängelseutbyggnad.
Smaller parties
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Arguments
Common arguments on each side, written without party attribution.
For
- Current capacity is overstretched, forcing rapid releases and limiting sentence-length policy options.
- Dedicated high-security units allow safer separation of gang leaders from the general prison population.
- Expansion is a precondition for any tougher sentencing regime to be operationally credible.
Against
- Prison expansion is expensive and locks public spending into a model with weak rehabilitation outcomes.
- Capacity often expands faster than population genuinely requires once it is built.
- Investment in prevention and early intervention has stronger long-term returns per krona spent.
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- Sentences for serious gang-related crimes should be doubled.
- The police should be allowed broader use of secret data interception.
- Visitation zones (visitationszoner) where police can search without suspicion are acceptable.
- The age of criminal responsibility should be lowered from 15 to 14 for serious crimes.
- Anonymous witness testimony should be allowed in gang-related trials.
- Police should be allowed to use real-time facial recognition in public spaces.
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