New dispute about increased penalties between S and M

The background is that the Correctional Service in SvD recently pointed to a greater need for prison places due to the Tidö government's tougher punishments than last spring.

- The Correctional Service notes again that there are tens of thousands of prison places missing, says Carvalho.

- This is happening at the same time as in the UK prisoners are being forced to be released because the prisons are overcrowded. That is the direction we are now going if we do not get this under control.

Carvalho points out that the Riksdag has decided on indefinite reforms, such as the abolition of the penalty discount for multiple crimes and the abolition of the two-thirds release even for shorter prison sentences. She interprets the Correctional Service as saying that the consequences can be fatal if everything is carried out at once.

- If you have to take this piece by piece, you have to put forward new legislative proposals, says Carvalho.

- This means that we have to start from scratch and that the new penalty system is worth nothing.

Abolishing the so-called quantity discount was one of the hot issues of the election campaign. The moderates were hard on the Social Democrats for not supporting the increase in punishment.

Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M) will go to the committee on Tuesday and the Director General of the Correctional Service on Thursday.

Strömmer accuses S of now trying to rake the arena so that it does not have to carry out important reforms.

- The Social Democrats' first move after the election is therefore about rolling back central increases in punishment, he says.

- The speech that S is the guarantor of a government that is "tough on crime" was at best an election campaign slogan.

Strömmer is adamant that the reforms can be implemented if the measures to reduce the lack of places in the institutions that M proposed are taken.

He also states that the Correctional Service in its capacity assessment did not take into account the fact that crime is decreasing - if the current tough criminal policy is allowed to remain.

The Justice Committee also wants the Correctional Service to report on how it is going with filling the prison in Tartu in Estonia with Swedish prisoners.

The Director General will also be asked about how the Correctional Service thinks when biological men who have changed their legal gender are placed in women's institutions.