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 ...

South Africa’s prisons face severe overcrowding. Build more facilities or rethink sentencing with focus on justice, safety and rehabilitate?

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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 ...

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The nonprofit is holding its sixth annual conference this Friday and Saturday Credit: DECARCERATE DecARcerate, a nonprofit that works on prison and criminal justice reform in Arkansas, will host its ...

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 ...

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. Now, over five months after the strike’s conclusion, ...

Numbers out of the Justice Department show that most suicides in jail happen shortly after booking — nearly half of them within the first week.

They’re being tortured because they’ve been placed in solitary confinement in one of the thousands of jails or prisons across ...