An inmate at a high security prison near Stockholm broke out on Monday afternoon after a car was rammed into prison gates. The break-out, at Beateberg prison in Trånsund, happened when the prisoner was on a supervised walk in a prison yard.
The Swedish Prison and Probation Administration has begun to recruit staff for a new organization designed to combat the growing criminal network inside prisons and jails.
<a href="/article.php?ID=1889">All three youngsters</a> who escaped from the Sundbo young offenders' institution outside Fagersta were caught on Monday afternoon.
A prisoner at a Swedish jail has been diagnosed with tuberculosis. Now, all staff and prisoners at Tillberga open prison near Västerås who have had close contact with the infected man are to be tested for the disease.
Swedish correctional facilities may be the institutions of choice for discerning war criminals, but for those already slammed up in Sweden, it seems that anywhere else in the world is better.
Sweden is willing to receive more war criminals from the former Yugoslavia, but would not consider detaining Saddam Hussein in its prisons, Justice Minister Thomas Bodström has said.
A riot by over forty prisoners at a jail in central Sweden ended on Friday night, but not before a prison building had been wrecked by the rebellious inmates.
The two prisoners who escaped from Mariefred Prison in September were charged on Friday with kidnapping, coercion and illegal possession of weapon and narcotics. Tobias Jardeberg, 28, was serving a life sentence for murder and Åke Martinsson, 35, a two year sentence for drugs offences.
At 4.55pm on Monday Åke Martinsson, one of the two prisoners who escaped from Mariefred Prison on Thursday evening, was arrested at the railway station in Degerfors, at the northeast corner of Lake Vänern. Just over an hour later his accomplice, Tobias Jardeberg, was caught in nearby Strömtorp.
Sweden's increasingly experienced fugitive-hunters were back in action on Thursday night following a break-out at Mariefred Prison, 50km west of Stockholm. Two men escaped, armed with knives, and took a prison warder hostage. This is the third escape in as many months and the general director of the prison service, Lena Häll Eriksson, has resigned.
Whilst most Swedes finally got a taste of summer this week as temperatures soared across the country, the prison service came in for a real roasting. The broadsheets and the tabloids carried daily stories of
Sweden awoke on Thursday morning with a strong sense of déjà vu. With the prison doors scarcely locked once more behind Tony Olsson and his cronies from Hall, it happened again. This time, on Wednesday afternoon, three convicts at Norrtälje Prison were tasting freedom following a dramatic raid.
Sweden awoke on Wednesday morning to the news that Tony Olsson, serving a life sentence for murdering two policemen in 1999, had escaped from Hall prison in Södertälje just after midnight. He was joined by three other prisoners. All four men have now been recaptured.
GP were on hand to welcome home Gothenburg policeman, Håkan Svedberg, from Jordan. Svedberg was one of ten Swedish officers who'd spent six months there training Iraqi police.
With famously relaxed prisons and a national obsession with mobile technology, the revelation in Sunday's DN that prisoners are using smuggled phones to organise crime outside was not altogether surprising.
