Poland’s prisons are overflowing, resulting in as many as 40,000 criminals avoiding a stay in the cells as there is nowhere to put them.

There are almost 82,000 prisoners in Poland, 30,000 offenders who were charged with offences but not imprisoned and 40,000 convicts who still wait to be checked in at a prison.

“The data indicates that we should build twice as many prisons as we have now,” Pawel Moczydlowski, former head of the Central Management of Prisons told the Rzeczpospolita daily. (mg)