Convict in Swedish prison demands holiday time

A prison convict in Sweden has demanded holiday time from being behind bars.

Natalia Pshenkina, 31, is held at a facility in Ystad and currently has a job inside the prison, reports national tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet.

Having started in February 2010, the prisoner believes that she is owed holiday for nearly two years of work.

Pshenkina filed a complaint putting forward her argument that people working in Sweden have the right to take 25 days off a year, by law.

She stated: "I've asked the head of production about which times during the year the prison allows vacation time for inmates. The answer was that prison doesn't have any vacation time at all."

However, a spokesman for the prison and probation service in Sweden clarified the situation and said: "[Prisoners] aren't employed by us and therefore, laws about vacation time don't apply."

Pshenkina was handed a life sentence for the 2005 murder of her former boyfriend.

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