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From Russia, with love: the Czech who wants a civilian airliner for
Christmas, and has gone all the way to Russia for it. Prostitutes
celebrate Christmas as well! And, "Christmas behind bars" - some
Czech prisoners are already baking Christmas cookies! Find out more in
Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Current AffairsGovernment bill to pave way for special facilities for juvenile offenders
Until now the Czech Republic has lacked proper facilities for dealing with
juvenile offenders committing serious crimes - including murder. But, that
could all be about to change. On Wednesday the government approved an
amendment put forward by the Education Ministry to create new facilities
for juveniles who had committed serious offences, not just as a means of
"putting them out of society's way" to prevent them from doing
additional harm, but to provide crucial counselling and perhaps a lifeline
to turn their lives around.
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Press ReviewPress Review
There's good news and bad news in today's papers - Czechs might not be able
to work freely in the current 15 members of the European Union after
enlargement, but they will be able to work in the other nine countries
that join on May 1st. Bad news for opponents of abortion, it seems few of
the MPs who've received graphic photographs of aborted foetuses have been
persuaded to back a bill banning abortion.
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Press ReviewPress Review
The return home of two Czech prisoners serving 50 year jail sentences for
heroin smuggling in Thailand is splashed across today's front pages.
"Handcuffed, behind bars, but home" reads the lead headline in Mlada Fronta Dnes.
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Letter from PragueEscape to Victory: Prisoners find football glory on the pitch
There's a football theme to this Letter from Prague. I'm neither a great
fan nor an expert on the game, but a story popped up this week which
caught my eye. It concerns a prison football team - the only prison team
in the Czech Republic.
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Current AffairsDoes crime pay in the Czech Republic?
The first major changes in the Czech penal code since 1990 have been
recently proposed by the government. How will this change the Czech crime
scene and also what will be the impact of the Czech Republic's upcoming
membership in the European Union? Tracy Burns has more.
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Current AffairsPolice arrest 53 people in connection with prison drug rings
The Czech Police have joined forces with the National Anti-Drug Bureau and
the Prison Services to crack down on drug dealers and stop drugs getting
into the hands of prison inmates. Two operations code-named Gaston and
Motylek, or Butterfly, appear to have brought real results. Dita Asiedu
reports:
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