After eight years in the skräckfängelser – here to Kim Eriksson sit

"After eight years in the skräckfängelser – here to Kim Eriksson sit"

"the prison service: So great the security risk is he"

"Kim Eriksson sentenced to death in Thailand but serving their punishment in Sweden."

"He had two wishes: to get the study and be placed in an institution close to their relatives."

"Now he is over 400 km away from his family."

"Kim Eriksson Sirawan, 38, from Sundsvall, sweden, has been 3 117 days in different skräckfängelser in Thailand after a knarkdom."

"Thai police revealed his knarklaboratorium in the garage in Bangkok at a foray 2011. They also found 53 grams of methamphetamine."

"the Swede was at first sentenced to death. The penalty was then converted to life imprisonment. After several laps and a pardon changed the authorities in Thailand to prison in 36 years and 8 months."

"In the summer, the government decided to Kim Eriksson Sirawan would serve the rest of the sentence in a Swedish prison. The judgment in Thailand then turned to 18 years in Sweden."

"Kim Eriksson Sirawan was transferred to Sweden in January and was placed on the riskmottagningen on Kumlaanstalten. Where he underwent an approximately six week long investigation. After the interviews, personality tests and observations ruled the prison service which the safety class and the institution that was appropriate for the 38-year-old."

"– He thinks that it is like staying in a hotel. Compared with the prison in Thailand is the fresh bedding, good food and pleasant staff, said his legal representative Harri Keränen in march."

"Now has the prison service announced its investment decisions."

"the Authority makes the assessment that the risk is medium-to 38-year-old, will accommodate, relieved, use of threats and violence, mismanage themselves or commit a crime."

"He placed, therefore, in safety class 2. It means closed institutions with lower security level."

"Want to get close to his family."

"During the placeringsutredningen asked Kim Eriksson Sirawan about two things."

"He desired to be placed in the Gävle or Saltviksanstalten. There are prisons near his family, who lives in Sundsvall."

"He also wanted to have the opportunity to study while in prison."

"But the Probation placed him on the Mariefredsanstalten two km from Mariefred centre and approximately 415 kilometres away from his family."

"”the Prison of Mariefred is deemed to be the appropriate institution that provides adequate security and employment,” it says in the placeringsbeslutet."

"Kim Eriksson Sirawan now struggle to get his sentence shortened, which Aftonbladet previously reported."

"He and his attorneys believe that the Probation service had not followed the understanding between the Swedish government and the authorities in Thailand, but added on three years and three months in the 18 years on the basis of a previous judgment."

"the prison service decided that the 38-year-old at the earliest would be released on August 6, 2024. Kim Eriksson Sirawan has appealed the strafftidsbeslutet and want to leave the prison on June 8, 2022."

"the Administrative court in Stockholm dealing with still appeal."

"”Location is booked in the prison of Mariefred,” writes the Probation service in its decision."

"Source: Probation"

"Source: Probation"