An online petition calling for the release of US rapper ASAP Rocky, detained in Sweden suspected of assault after a street brawl, has gained more than 470,000 signatories in 24 hours.
Can cows help rehabilitate prisoners? That's what's being done at Rödjan in Mariestad, which was one of Sweden's first 'open prisons' when it opened in the 20s.
Inmates at a Swedish prison have reported the institution to Sweden's Justice Ombudsman because they are unhappy with the quality of the toilet paper, Swedish public broadcaster SVT reports.
Inmates at a Swedish prison have reported the institution to Sweden's Justice Ombudsman because they are not happy with the recreational activities on offer, including a lack of arts and crafts.
Refugees sheltering in Malmö's 2013 Eurovision venue are begging to leave, with one describing it as a "prison" with "inhuman conditions", while Swedish nurses working there have been pulled out because of the health risks.
A Swedish man who sent bills to thousands of alleged porn surfers and threatened to publish their names if they failed to pay has been sentenced to two and a half years' jail for extortion.
Fewer people were sent to prison in Sweden in 2014 than in any other year since the 1950s, according to new figures from Sweden’s Prison and Probation Service (Kriminalvården).
Sweden's Prison and Probation Services are beginning a project in which suspected criminals will be given surf tablets to look at evidence against them.
A major manhunt has been launched by police in Stockholm after a prisoner managed to escape from the Storboda correctional facility. The fugitive has not been described as dangerous.
Sweden boasts one of the world's lowest incarceration rates - ten times lower than the US. Why do Swedish judges opt to keep convicts out of jail or issue lenient sentences, which one inmate called "a chance to start over".
Sweden's surplus of prison spaces has prompted Norway's justice minister to ask about possibility of renting places in Swedish prisons for Norwegian prisoners.
Staff at a correctional services psychiatric facility in Växsjö are grappling with a surge in narcotics after inmates gained the right to use mobile phones.
The Christian Democrat party wants to criminalize breaking out of prison, which at present can be punished with withdrawn privileges for the inmate in Swedish jail.
A woman in southern Sweden has been sentenced to a further two months in prison after she tried to get out of her initial sentence by forging a medical certificate that claimed she had cancer and only a few months to live.
A 91-year-old Swedish woman who is "too old" to be sent to prison told Swedish Enforcement Authorities (Kronofogden) they could take her coffin once she passed away, claiming she had no other possessions to pay off her debts.
Despite the centre-right coalition government's policy of introducing harsher punishments for criminals there are fewer inmates in Swedish prisons today than when the Social Democrats were in power.
The man who robbed a drunken man in Stockholm as he lay on the subway train tracks is now suspected of killing someone in Paris in 2011, after a French television viewer recognized the thief from security camera footage.
