Nurses hold a key position in health and care work in Norwegian prisons. What is it like for them to promote health behind bars? A professor at the University of Agder has written a book about this.

Many prisons, especially in Norway, are designed in a fundamentally different way than in the U.S. Proximity to nature is often considered, for example. Cells in Norway are also for a single person – ...

From dancing inmates in the Philippines to eco-island prisons in Norway, the world’s correctional systems are stranger than fiction. Some focus on rehabilitation through art, farming, and ...

As anti-Islam extremist Anders Behring Breivik prepares to stand trial for killing 76 people in Oslo and the Utøya island on Friday, journalists are increasingly turning their attention to Norway's ...

When most people imagine prison, they picture bars, razor wire, and isolation. But around the world, some prisons operate very differently. From inmates dancing in choreographed performances in the ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Norwegian prosecutors officially indicted Anders Behring Breivik, the ...