LEPOGLAVA LEPOGLAVA, May 18 (Hina) - Reporters toured the top-security prison of Lepoglava last week in an organised manner for the first time. The tour of reporters to this jail in the northern town of Lepoglava was organised by the
Justice Ministry's department for the penitentiary system.
LEPOGLAVA, May 18 (Hina) - Reporters toured the top-security prison
of Lepoglava last week in an organised manner for the first time.
The tour of reporters to this jail in the northern town of Lepoglava
was organised by the Justice Ministry's department for the
penitentiary system. #L#
The staff in the Lepoglava jail informed reporters about all
aspects of life in this institution, which was built between 1908
and 1914. Reporters visited cells, facilities for leisure and
spare-time activities, the sports hall, the first-aid station, the
chapel, classrooms, and manufacturing plants where 60 percent of
prisoners are employed.
The prison's head, Stjepan Loparic, said there were some 600
inmates in the prison at the moment.
The average duration of imprisonment is a little more than seven
years, while 17 prisoners are serving sentences longer than 20
years.
The oldest inmate is 82-year-old Dinko Sakic, convicted of war
crimes he committed as a commander of a WW2 concentration camp. The
youngest prisoner is 22 years old. Of those serving sentences in
Lepoglava, 38 percent are convicted of murder, and 42 men are war
crimes convicts.
During their tour, reporters could talk with inmates who were at the
sports hall or in the manufacturing plant.
The journalists wrapped up the trip with a visit to the shop which
sells works of arts and furniture made by the Lepoglava prisoners.
Similar visits to other penitentiary institutions in Croatia are to
be organised soon.
(hina) ms