Norway’s prison system emphasizes rehabilitation over punishment, focusing on reintegration rather than harsh confinement. Inmates have access to education, work programs, and humane living conditions ...

• Recidivism rates hover at about 20 per cent within two years of release, compared with 50 per cent to 70 per cent in many ...

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 ...

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 ...