Sweden
🇸🇪 Sweden Plans to Establish Prisons for Young People Aged 13 and Above
🇸🇪 In Sweden, offenders as young as 13 will be placed in youth prisons starting next summer. Some time ago, the government commissioned the National Prison and Probation Service to create sections in prisons for 15- to 17-year-olds who have committed serious crimes. This task is now being expanded to include 13- and 14-year-olds, according…
Sweden Aims to Introduce Law Letting Police Wiretap Children as Gang Violence Rises
Sweden will rush through legislation allowing police to wiretap children under 15 after a recent spate of bombings ordered by criminal gangs recruiting teens, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced Thursday. “We are pushing the legislation to enter into force in the fall of 2025 … This is important to get at those who often…
Sweden Plans Sending Inmates Abroad as Prisons Dull Due to Gang Crime Wave
Sweden can send criminals to serve their sentences in prisons abroad, a government-appointed commission said, as the country struggles to handle an influx of new inmates arising from a wave of gang crime. Sweden has been plagued by gang crime that has escalated over the last two decades and has seen the Nordic nation top…