TALLINN (BNS) - More than half of the workers in Estonia's prisons will be dismissed by the end of 2000 if they do not learn Estonian and naturalize as Estonian citizens, the State Detentions Department reported.At the beginning of July, 933 of the country's 2,342 officials working in the prison system did not have Estonian citizenship. In addition, 189 were citizens of other countries. Some 500 positions are vacant, said Lasse Liikane, the Detentions Department's personnel manager."The situation is the most critical with regard to employees of supervision departments whose job is the actua...
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