The punitive landscape in Denmark is seeing more infractions, such as smoking inside the prison, punishable by time in disciplinary solitary confinement. In 2019, four times as many people spent ...

In Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Iceland, life in prison resembles the outside world as much as possible. However, like any prison system, they aren't perfect. Criminal policies in these ...

Prison reform advocates often point to the Nordic countries as examples of “how to do prison right”. The low rates of imprisonment and more humane approach to incarceration in these countries have ...

South Korea: In a video by World Friends, a South Korean prison meal consists of rice with beans, along with assorted fresh ...

The purpose of the visit was to examine the conditions of detention, regime and treatment of persons accommodated in the closed unit (Unit A) of the new prison in Nuuk (Ny Anstalt). Brought into ...

In an executive order, the president also moved to end gender-related medical treatments for transgender people in prison. By Shaila Dewan and Amy Harmon President Trump has ordered federal ...

A staged joke or serious threat? Trump seems intent on controlling a territory that's been part of the Danish crown since ...