Comparing prisons, there are huge differences. There are Latin American-style prisons in which only a mentally strong person could survive, head of Directorate for the Execution of Sanctions Aleksandar Pandov said on Saturday.
Speaking to reporters in Shtip, Pandov, who after taking office has completed a tour of all Macedonian prisons, stated that some prisons functioned ‘normally’, while others were like ‘private prisons.’
“And, unfortunately, the brothers from the April 27 Parliament storming had served detention in the Shutka jail for two years. There are prisons resembling the European prisons, functioning normally. But what I have found out is that the managers of some prisons have acted in the style of Louis 14, as if though the prisons were their own and they treated the prisoners as such,” Pandov said.
