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For the fear of the release of those sentenced to life imprisonment!

2025-07-27 12:00:53Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ZYLYFTAR BREGU
For the fear of the release of those sentenced to life imprisonment!
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The release of life-sentenced prisoners is proposed! The alarm was provoked by the draft of the New Criminal Code that was published on Friday, July 25, for public discussion.

The publication marks the second step after drafting, but there is still a long way to go until approval by the Albanian Parliament.

Two articles of this draft spoke specifically about the early conditional release of life sentence convicts, respectively articles 181 and 182.

The first point of Article 181 makes it very clear that a person sentenced to life imprisonment can only claim early release on parole if he has served 35 years in prison.

To continue the argument, we will consider the current contingent of those sentenced to life imprisonment.

Most of them committed the crimes for which they were convicted during the age range of 20-30 years.

Mathematically, the youngest of them can request early parole when they turn 55, and the oldest when they turn 65.

Prison experts believe that over the age of 65, an individual's negative criminal energy drops significantly.

This reasoning is only part of the legal provisions in the draft criminal code. Because a life-sentenced prisoner only has the right to request early release on parole, having served 35 years in prison.

This request will first go through the filters of the prison structures, then it is again the court that decides on his release.

In the most fortunate case when he can be released, he will be under constant monitoring by the Probation Service for five years, and in the event of even a modest violation of the law, the individual returns to prison, never to have the possibility of parole again. Back to life imprisonment!

These filtering, controlling and punitive mechanisms (as well as others that can be added or specified during the discussion by legal professionals) are the guarantee for the success of this opportunity.

The alarm with which the news was conveyed indicates opposition to the proposal and fear of the release of this category, rightly so, illustrating the fear with personal names that have terrorized Albanian society.

Fear of failure is not an argument for not trying.

Once we have conquered fear, what reason is left not to give these lifers a second chance?

One reason may be the anger of the victim's relatives in particular, and society as a whole, at the nature and mechanism of the crime.

The victim has the right to speak during the court process when parole is being discussed. Her position is almost decisive.

The doctor, as he hands you the prescription for the medications you will use to fight the illness that has exhausted you, reminds you (as if to calm your panic as you see the long list of medications) that if you get better faster, you can stop taking the medications. Few people have finished the "bin" of medications.

Everyone claims they get better and stop taking them.

In parallel with this logic, every convict, on whom the system of serving the sentence has had the best effects of repentance, integration, and rehabilitation, requests the cessation of the measure of isolation in prison and the return to family and society. 

Why should life-sentenced prisoners be excluded from this logic of reasoning? Together with the denial that we make to this category of people to be released on parole, we have demolished the entire foundation of the prison system (which is also propaganda) according to which prison serves to repent, integrate or rehabilitate.

European sentencing systems apply this right to life-sentenced prisoners.

Joining the European family also requires the approximation of behavior towards those who seriously violate public order.

The EU directive is clear about the application of this behavior to the contingent of life prisoners. The ECHR has also been clear in its decisions.

But in the Albanian case, the contingent of lifers has another feature.

Most of the life sentences are linked to 1997, when the state handed over authority to the gangs.

Moreover, the politicians amnestied themselves in March of that year, without allowing their criminal trial at all.


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