Kragujevac to get new correctional institution - Investment totals EUR 22 m

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be employed in the security services, treatment and education.

- It will be a correctional institution built according to the latest international standards. City of Kragujevac gave new 2.5 hectares of land, we expect that within a year construction of the facility that will serve not only the Sumadija district will start. The investment totals EUR 22 m, of which 18 provided through favorable loans from the Council of Europe - Nikola Selakovic said.

He outlined that "a city which has its prison institution can see benefits through different kids of community service, such as when during floods convicts were involved in the defense." Justice Minister of justice mentioned that "there is a possibility that the city provides a location at which the state will make a modern building where all judicial authorities would be and that the old court building is to be given to the city to use it.”