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Convicted killer wants to 'take a vacation'

Society: 1 Feb 12
A 31-year-old woman who is serving a life sentence for murder in a Swedish prison has demanded that she be allowed to take a holiday. READ »

Donna, 26, Sweden's first police recruit in hijab

Society: 6 Dec 11
Sweden’s first veiled police recruit, Donna Eljammal, does not regard her traditional Muslim hijab as a hindrance but rather an asset for her future career within the Swedish police force. READ »

Swedish study links names to criminality

Society: 12 Oct 11
Swedish men given names ending in y - such as Ronny or Conny - are more likely to fall into a life of crime than their peers, a new Swedish study has shown. READ »

Inmate beats female prison guard to death

National: 3 Oct 11
A female guard at a jail south of Stockholm was killed on Monday after being beaten by an inmate, police have confirmed. READ »

Inmate commits suicide at Swedish prison

National: 24 Aug 11
A man in his forties was found dead in his cell at a prison in Gothenburg on Tuesday morning, with the authorities confirming that he had taken his own life. READ »

Swedish inmates complain over 'poor TV'

Society: 17 Aug 11
Inmates at a detention centre in Kalmar, in southern Sweden, have written a letter of complaint to the board about the "poor channel selection" on the centre TVs. READ »

Gangster gave orders from inside jail: report

National: 13 Jun 11
A 30-year-old suspected gang leader suspected of ordering the killing of a Swedish footballer and his brother used notes and binoculars to continue giving orders to his gang from within inside a Swedish jail. READ »

Migration Board 'violates human rights': report

National: 23 May 11
Sweden's top watchdog has slammed the country's Migration Board for human rights violations stemming from the agency's detention practices for people awaiting deportation. READ »

Murder suspect sent 10,000 texts from jail

National: 5 May 11
A 31-year-old man recently convicted of stabbing a man to death used a smuggled mobile phone to send more than 10,000 text messages from inside his cell in a Swedish jail. The phone has yet to be found. READ »

Annika Östberg walks free after 30 years

Society: 2 May 11
Annika Östberg Deasy, convicted of a double murder in the US in 1983, was released on Monday after 30 years in custody. READ »

Deported man claims police stole money

National: 5 Apr 11
A Palestinian man deported from Sweden last year has filed a suit against Swedish police, claiming that the escorting officers stole his savings. READ »

Court rules prisoner smoking ban illegal

Society: 24 Mar 11
Prisoners in Swedish prisons can not be forbidden from smoking in their cells with reference to fire risk or safety reasons, the Supreme Administrative Court has ruled in a case concerning an inmate at Skänninge prison. READ »

70 protesters against Iraqi expulsions arrested

National: 18 Jan 11
Police have arrested about 70 demonstrators who gathered outside the Swedish National Migration Board's (Migrationsverket) offices south of Gothenburg to prevent a group of Iraqis from being deported on Wednesday. READ »

Bomb rattles home of Swedish prison worker

National: 29 Dec 10
An explosive device detonated on the steps of the home of an employee of the Swedish prison service early Tuesday morning in what is being described as a threat against the man’s family. READ »

Swedes escape from Haitian prison drama

National: 18 Oct 10
Six Swedes and an American successfully escaped from Haiti's largest prison after they were taken hostage when prisoners staged a revolt on Sunday. READ »

Prison guards take rapist to sex shop

Society: 23 Jul 10
A convicted rapist was taken by prison guards to a sex shop during supervised leave despite being on a strict no-porn rehabilitation regime. READ »

Swedish prisoners sign up for lullabies project

Society: 23 Apr 10
Malmö city library and the Swedish prisons service have launched a project to encourage imprisoned fathers to record bedtime stories hoping to strengthen bonds with their children and assist their rehabilitation. READ »

Swedish prisoners seek higher learning

Education: 17 Mar 10
An increasing number of prisoners at Swedish correctional facilities are taking the chance to study, with a near doubling in completed courses from 2007 to 2009. READ »

Prison guard pregnant after affair with rapist

National: 25 Jan 10
A convicted rapist is set to become a father following a secret romance with a female prison guard, one of several inmate-guard love affairs reported to have taken place at the prison. READ »

Rowdy prison service Christmas party prompts police response

Society: 5 Jan 10
Police were called to a Christmas party thrown by Swedish prison personnel in Härnösand in northeastern Sweden after the festivities spiraled out of control. READ »

War criminal Plavsic lifts off from Sweden

National: 27 Oct 09
Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic left Sweden on Tuesday after being granted early release from a Swedish prison by the UN war crimes court, prison officials said. READ »

Prison closures needed to keep authority afloat

National: 25 Oct 09
An overhaul of Swedish prisons will see 14 institutions affected by closures and cutbacks as the appointed authority is forced to juggle figures in line with its budget for 2010. READ »

Anger as deportees held in solitary confinement

National: 13 Oct 09
Sweden continues to isolate asylum seekers awaiting deportation in remand centres, despite continued criticism from torture committees at the United Nations and the Council of Europe. READ »

'Scared straight' TV show slammed

National: 2 Oct 09
A new TV4 reality show featuring youths doing time in an adult prison has been slammed by the Swedish Welfare Board for encouraging criminal careers. READ »

Swedish prison numbers at 15-year high

National: 11 Aug 09
The Swedish prison population has reached record levels, according to a budget proposition presented to the government by the Prison and Probation Service. READ »

Fugitives benefit from statute of limitations

National: 18 Jul 09
Hundreds of convicted individuals who were on the run and evaded capture for a sufficiently long period of time have had their prison sentences barred under the statute of limitations. READ »

Inmates commit crimes using prison phones

National: 26 Jun 09
Swedish inmates are routinely able to bypass blocks put on prison telephones, allowing them to make calls to fellow criminals with instructions for carrying out new crimes. READ »

Convicted murderer suspected in new killing

National: 22 Jun 09
A 36-year-old man suspected of murdering a woman on Kungsholmen in Stockholm at the weekend was on furlough from a lengthy prison sentence at the time of the killing. READ »

Overweight inmate seeks damages for svelte fatigues

Society: 25 May 09
An inmate at Karlskrona prison in southern Sweden has applied for damages after the prisons service was unable to provide adequate attire to cover his considerable frame. READ »

Woman jailed for rape of teenage girls

National: 21 Apr 09
A 28-year-old Swedish woman has been convicted of rape after she and her boyfriend forced two teenage girls to engage in sex acts against their will over a 12-hour period. READ »

Gang leader studies fraud law in prison

Society: 1 Apr 09
While imprisoned for serious drugs offences, Andreas Olsson, the leader of the Bandidos organized crime gang in Stockholm, has been studying courses in financial criminal law at the taxpayer's expense. READ »

Criminal justice agencies concerned over budget woes

Politics: 20 Mar 09
Sweden’s criminal justice system lies on the brink of a major budget crisis, with deficits of more than 12 billion kronor ($1.5 billion) expected by 2012. READ »

Recession hits demand for prison produce

National: 14 Feb 09
The recession has hit demand for items produced at Sweden's prisons. Prisoners are now at risk of being left with idle hands. READ »

Bid to sell Swedish prison clothes online backfires

Society: 22 Jan 09
A woman’s attempt to sell a Swedish prisoner’s uniform on the popular buy-and-sell website Blocket.se nearly resulted in her own brush with the law. READ »

Students design outfits for Swedish women prisoners

Society: 16 Sep 08
Stockholm design school students have created a radical new clothing line for female prisoners. The range was unveiled on Tuesday at Färingsö prison, located just outside the city. READ »

Rapist refused damages for porn rights slight

National: 8 Aug 08
A convicted rapist has been refused compensation for an alleged rights violation when he was denied access to pornography in his cell. READ »

Mountain climbing prisoner surmounts jail wall

National: 23 Apr 08
Guards at a Swedish prison have received an official reprimand after a mountain climbing detainee managed to escape. READ »

Parents’ crime costs man prison warden job

National: 19 Feb 08
A man was forced to leave his job as a prison warden after the conviction of his parents. READ »

Swedish prisons hope to profit from 'Made in Jail'

National: 2 Jan 08
Officials hope that Swedish prison factories can benefit by aligning with the popular clothing brand. READ »

Worry over prison smoking ban

National: 23 Dec 07
Guards in Sweden's jails have expressed concern that a ban on smoking due to come into force on January 1st will lead to increased violence. READ »

Tension mounts over smoke-free jails

Society: 22 Oct 07
In just over two months all jails in Sweden will be smoke-free. The controversial decision was taken more than a year ago, but the imminent ban is starting to cause concern on both sides of the bars. READ »

Murderer on strike over 'hug ban'

Society: 1 Oct 07
A notorious police murderer in one of Sweden's top-security jails has started a hunger strike over what he claims is guards' refusal to let him hug his relatives. But the prison service denies there is a hug ban. READ »

Man found hanged in cell after court verdict

National: 21 Jul 07
A 39-year-old man was found dead in custody in Malmö on Saturday morning. The man had committed suicide, a day after being told that he was to be deported to France. READ »

Prison porn for rapists approved by court

Society: 25 Jun 07
Sweden's convicted rapists are entitled to have pornography in their cells, the Supreme Administrative Court has judged. READ »

Prisoner left out in freezing yard

National: 15 Feb 07
A man being held at a remand centre near Stockholm was left out all night in an exercise yard, as temperatures fell to minus 8 degrees centigrade. The error was discovered on Thursday morning. READ »

'Ban porn from prisons' call

Society: 27 Nov 06
Pornographic magazines should be banned from Sweden's prisons and remand centres, the prison service says. The reason: it is insulting for female prison officers. READ »

Smoking banned in jail from 2008

Society: 24 Nov 06
All jails in Sweden will be no-smoking zones in little over a year, the head of the prison service has decided. Prisoners will be offered help in kicking the habit. READ »

Prison suicides increasing in Sweden

Society: 17 Apr 06
While the number of suicides in Sweden has long been declining, the trend is reversed in prisons. More people in Swedish jails are committing suicide now than 15 years ago - often through hanging themselves from toilet doors. READ »

'University of crime' opens in Linköping

Society: 3 Apr 06
A research centre dedicated to the fight against crime opens in Linköping on Tuesday. Sex crime, economic crime, child abuse and leadership are amongst the subjects to be studied. READ »

Tuberculosis strikes twelve in prison

National: 1 Apr 06
At least seven employees and five prisoners at Svartsjö prison outside Stockholm have been infected by the lung disease tuberculosis. READ »

17 year old hangs himself in police custody

National: 14 Jan 06
After less than two hours in custody, a 17 year old boy being held by Örebro police hanged himself early on Saturday morning. An internal investigation has begun. READ »

Flight restrictions over Swedish prisons from next year

National: 17 Nov 05
As part of the ongoing work to plug the holes in Sweden's leaky prisons, the government agrees to introduce a ban on flights over five of the country's high security prisons. READ »

Foreign prisoners reject Swedish hospitality

Society: 12 Aug 05
Swedish prisons may be considered plush by many, but an increasing number of prisoners with foreign backgrounds are trying to get moved abroad. Going back to the Netherlands is popular among people convicted of drugs offences. READ »

Staff "behind Hall Prison escapes"

National: 3 Nov 04
While five members of staff at Hall prison are under suspicion for their unconventional approach to reducing Sweden's prison population, the government uses more legal methods - shipping foreign prisoners home. READ »

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