Sweden coping with refugee inflow, may use prisons as housing

Sweden could use empty prisons and army barracks as emergency shelter for record numbers of refugees arriving in the Nordic country, the government said on Friday. Sweden is coping and can house the 7,000 asylum seekers a week who are arriving at the country's ports and stations, but the situation is becoming "strained", Migration Minister Morgan Johansson told reporters. "We are now experiencing the biggest flow of refugees since World War Two," Johansson said.