Prison

The situation with groups of rampaging anarchists smashing public and private property, with the senseless graffiti that seems to have left no building in the center of Athens untouched, and with the bullying tactics of sundry activists claiming to represent certain social causes has breached all limits of acceptability. 

Prisoners rebelled after an attempted escape from a Brazilian prison and took guards as hostages, France's press quoted the authorities as saying.

The grazing crisis lasted for several hours. The rebellion broke out yesterday afternoon in a prison about 50km from the center of Rio de Janeiro. Seven guards were taken hostages.

Prison officers are again protesting.

Montana, Kardjali, Smolyan, Pernik and Pazardzhik are the next cities which are going to support the protest of the Prison Syndicates.

There will be also protests at the Courts of Justice  in 10 other cities in the country.

Two days ago, prison staff went out on the streets demanding pay increases and more job positions.

The union representing the country's prison guards has complained of frequent attacks against its members, both inside Greek penitentiaries and against their vehicles.

"Recently the attacks against prison workers have intensified and the political leadership of the Justice Ministry acts as if nothing is happening," the union said.

The country's highest administrative court on Thursday rejected a claim by the family of a man who committed suicide while incarcerated at Ioaninna Prison in northwestern Greece in 2001.

The family was seeking 1.2 million euros from the Greek state in moral damages after their relative, convicted of drug-related offenses, hanged himself in his cell.

An open-air meeting will be held today by the prison staff in Sliven. They join in protesting their colleagues from other places of imprisonment in the country, reports sega.

The 78-year-old captain of a speedboat that collided with a tourist vessel off the Saronic island of Aegina killing four people in August of last year died on Thursday, it emerged on Friday.

Thrasyvoulos Lykourezos was remanded in custody almost immediately after the tragedy and remained in prison for a full year.

The government on Tuesday rejected an amendment brought to Parliament by New Democracy aimed at scrapping a law passed in 2015 which allows certain prisoners convicted of serious felonies to be granted furloughs.

Unbiased implementation of the law is what constitutes a state governed by law and order, Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis told lawmakers in Parliament on Thursday in response to criticism of a decision reached by the capital's Korydallos Prison council to grant 48-hour furlough to convicted November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas.

The Justice Ministry on Wednesday responded to reports that the man accused of stabbing to death 32-year-old tax office worker Theodora Zeberi at Athens's Second Cemetery in the western suburb of Rizoupoli on October 18 had been released from prison in May.