This development is partly explained by some short-term prisoners being diverted to community service. The results are largely similar to other measures of socioeconomic status and different subgroups ...

Finland, long heralded as a pioneer in humane prison practices, is trying to bridge this gap. Over the past two years, some Finnish prisons have introduced AI-related tasks to inmates, moving ...

Police and prison officers in Finland have issued a rare strike warning as wage talks with the government stall. The planned ...

Unions representing government workers — including police officers and prison staff — have issued a strike warning for 15 ...

This is otherwise known as universal jurisdiction. Finland ratified the 1949 Geneva Conventions concerning treatment of war prisoners in 1955. Ukraine’s General Prosecutor saluted the conviction and ...

A Helsinki court has sentenced Russian neo-Nazi and former paramilitary commander Yan Petrovsky to life in prison on four counts of war crimes committed in eastern Ukraine, Finnish broadcaster YLE ...

The Helsinki District Court has found Russian citizen Voislav Torden guilty of a range of crimes and sentenced him to life in prison ... Torden is in custody in Finland on suspicion of committing ...