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Greek immigrants are typically trapped in jail for a year past their sentences.
About 400 immigrants in Greece remain trapped in jail, even though they have completed their sentences. They are unable to leave because of "difficulties with carrying out their deportation orders," Athens News reported today.
Spyros Karakitsos, head of Greece's Prison Guards' Association, told Athens News that immigrants are typically trapped in the prison system for an extra 12 months past their sentences.
In December, a European Union report found that prison overcrowding is a major problem in some European countries, such as Greece. Greek prisons have an overcrowding rate of 130 percent, Sofia News Agency reported.
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