Despite new EU rules, the process to send convicted criminals from Sweden to their home countries remains a difficult and time-consuming prospect, according to the Swedish Prison and Probation Service.
Sweden’s prisons are nearing capacity and as a result both violence against correctional workers and the presence of illegal weapons are on the rise, according to a report by broadcaster SVT.
Sweden needs hundreds of new prison cells and detention spaces in the coming years according to Justice Minister Morgan Johansson, who thinks there will be more criminals handed sentences and therefore more space needed.
Malmö city library and the Swedish prisons service have launched a project to encourage imprisoned fathers to record bedtime stories which can be played to their children during the time they are locked up.
An increasing number of prisoners at Swedish correctional facilities are taking the chance to study, according to new figures from the Swedish Prison and Probation Service (Kriminalvården).
The Swedish prison population has reached record levels, according to a budget proposition presented to the government by the Prison and Probation Service (Kriminalvården).
A male guard must always be in attendance when prisoners are exercising in the yard. This new rule has upset guards at Norrköping remand prison who have reported the case to the Equal Opportunities Ombudsman (Jämställdhetsombudmand - Jämo).
The United Nations Committee against Torture has directed strong criticism against Sweden for the conditions in its remand prisons, Dagens Nyheter reports.
While the number of prisoners in Sweden's correctional institutions was down in 2005, the amount of convicts serving life sentences is up, according to prison service statistics for last year.
The system designed to disrupt mobile signals coming into Sweden’s high-security Hall prison is not working as it is supposed to, allowing prisoners to use mobile phones, Dagens Nyheter has reported.
A prison officer at a jail in Västmanland has been charged with corruption. He is accused of accepting a Kex chocolate bar and some feta cheese from a prisoner.
The UN war crimes court in The Hague said on Friday that the Bosnian Serb politician convicted of crimes against humanity has been transferred to Sweden to serve his 10-year sentence.
The number of prisoners being kept in solitary confinement in Sweden has almost doubled over the last ten years. At the same time, it has become considerably harder to gain approval for parole applications.
A 19 year old has escaped from a secure youth unit in Sundbo, Fagersta. It is the second time in two days that he has done a runner, while a murderer who escaped from the same institution on Friday was caught on Saturday.
