VILNIUS - It is not advisable to get oneself tossed into a Lithuanian prison. Inmates are crammed into cells like lemmings in tiny metal boxes and comfort is light years away."We are becoming a country of prisoners," is how Centrist MP Egidijus Bickauskas put it. To solve this problem, Interior Ministry officials and many politicians say the answer is to ease the country's severe attitude toward crime and punishment.There are 373 convicts per 100,000 inhabitants of Lithuania, according to the statistics of the Lithuanian Parliament's legal committee. In Central Europe, there are 200 convict...
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