A jail in Sörnäinen in southern Finland. According to a poll a majority of the public would like to put an end to the release of life sentence prisoners

More than half of the respondents in a poll carried out for six provincial papers said prisoners sentenced to life in prison should have no right to be released at all, the papers quoted the poll as indicating on Saturday.

Matti Tolvanen, a professor of criminal law at the University of East Finland, was quoted as saying by Savon Sanomat that the outcome of the poll did not surprise him in light of recent events.

Tolvanen added that keeping all life sentence prisoners locked up indefinitely would raise violence and the risk of escape.
But he went on to say that some prisoners should be made to serve their life sentences in full.

Commissioned by the papers, including Savon Sanomat, market research company Taloustutkimus interviewed about 1,000 people shortly after a released life sentence prisoner killed three people.

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