The comfortable features of a Norwegian prison is not so different from a fully equipped home in Nigeria. This is where a drug trafficker, Darden, is serving a year jail term for criminal offence. He ...

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In my debut op-ed, I referred to the Norwegian prison system and how I felt it may provide solutions to our broken system. I believe that Norway’s unique penal philosophy fosters an environment that ...

Today, previous convictions, substance abuse and behaviour in prison are the main factors that are considered when predicting the risk of recidivism. A study from the Norwegian University of Science ...

Why do so many people return to crime after serving their sentence—even in Norway, with one of the world's most humane prison systems? That is the question Olea Linnea Andersson recently explored in ...