Polish prisoners to be returned from the EU by the end of 2016

As many as 940 Polish prisoners currently under arrest around the European Union, will be returned to Poland by the end of 2016. Thus, the government is expanding prisons in Rzeszów (southeastern Poland) and Grudziądz (northern Poland). Dziennik Gazeta Prawna  daily reports that a five-year transitional period (which enables the transfer of prisoners to jails in their country of origin) is about to expire. Currently, there are more than 71,000 Polish prisoners, which equals over 87 percent capacity, and about 6,000 Poles in European jails, mainly in the Netherlands, Germany and the UK.