The number of convicted murderers being sentenced to life imprisonment has fallen dramatically following the Swedish Supreme Court's decision in March that the standard penalty for murder should be ten years in jail.
From the beginning of the new year all jails in Sweden will be smoke-free. The controversial decision was taken over a year ago, but the imminent ban is starting to cause concern on both sides of the bars.
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 that they prevent prisoners having physical contact with their families.
The governors of three Swedish prisons have expressed concern after the Supreme Administrative Court allowed a convicted rapist to keep pornographic magazines in his cell.
The reputation of Swedish prison food has been given a boost, after a prisoner went up so much in weight during his stay in a Swedish prison cell that his clothes no longer fitted him when he was released.
A fax from a friend was all that it took for a remand prisoner to escape from a Swedish jail last month. Prison officials have promised to tighten up procedures after the incident, but they have already ruled out extra punishment for the prisoner.
Clever criminals attached cutlery to their shoes to facilitate their escape from Storboda prison north of Stockholm. But with forked feet the 49-year-old man who made it over the jail’s fence found his ability to run sorely hampered.
A prison doctor has been issued a warning for prescribing large quantities of sedatives and Viagra to a sex offender who raped two women in the weeks after his release.
A request for a pardon for former Bosnian Serb president and war criminal Biljana Plavsic, who is serving an 11-year sentence in Sweden, has been submitted to Swedish authorities, the justice ministry said Tuesday.
A remand prisoner staged a classic escape from a Stockholm jail on Wednesday morning, tying sheets together to lower himself down from his seventh-floor cell.
A prisoner at Mariefred jail in central Sweden escaped on Wednesday evening while playing football with other inmates. Police say a search is now underway in the escaped man's home town.
A third of those convicted of sex-related offences never go through treatment before the end of their jail terms because of a lack of resources in the Swedish prison system, reported Svenska Dagbladet on Thursday.
The rights of people convicted of serious sexual offences to use pornographic magazines is to be tested in Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court, it has been reported.
Procedures for checking people who have been sentenced to secure psychiatric care are flawed, according to a study carried out by the Swedish Board of Health and Welfare.
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.
<span class="smallPrint">KATRINEHOLM</span>. A 26 year old woman who <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3496">escaped from Karsudden secure hospital</a> a few days ago returned voluntarily on Friday.
Police forces across Sweden and abroad are looking for a woman who escaped from a secure hospital near Katrineholm on Wednesday. The 26 year old, who was convicted of murdering her own grandmother, fled the hospital in a waiting car with her two year old daughter.
