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15 minutes: over a thousand complaints about conditions in Portuguese prisons reach the European Court

SIC Notícias14 September 2026 at 21:02

The poor conditions in Portuguese prisons are motivating over a thousand complaints at the European Court of Human Rights. This high number of complaints represents a significant concern for the Portuguese prison system.

Between 2017 and 2024, Portugal was required to pay 1.2 million euros in compensation due to complaints filed by inmates. These amounts refer to cases judged by the European Court of Human Rights.

Portuguese inmates have been turning to the European court to denounce the conditions in the country's prisons. The complaints cover various issues related to the national prison system.

This landscape highlights the challenges faced by the Portuguese prison system and the financial consequences that the State has been bearing as a result of the identified failures in detention conditions.

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