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Solberg must answer for disputed video

Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister Erna Solberg has reportedly been too busy preparing for this week's state budget conference to answer questions about a...

Minister blasted for ‘propaganda’

Justice Minister Anders Anundsen is once again the target of harsh criticism, after spending NOK 50,000 of taxpayers' money to produce a half-hour video that...

Two more inmates escaped from jail, later caught

UPDATED: Two men  in their 20s and 30s escaped from a low-security prison in eastern Norway on Thursday, the second jail-break so far this...

Man escaped prison on a surfboard

Norwegian police think a young inmate at Norway's Bastøy Prison, located on an island off Horten south of Oslo, escaped during the night by...

SAS wins contract for prisoner transport

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has won a state contract to transport Norwegian prisoners to the Netherlands, where Norway struck a deal to confine them in...

Teenage killer to be held indefinitely

A local court has ruled that the public must be protected from a violent 15-year-old girl who murdered the woman who was taking care...

Ombud assails Norway’s jails

Norway's prisons are often described as "hotels" by foreign inmates who marvel over their single cells, some of which even have flat-screen TVs. Norwegian...

Government plans to build new jails

After suffering a severe shortage of jail space for years, Norway's conservative government has proposed building no less than four new prisons and expanding cell space at...

Dutch jail ready for Norwegian prisoners

Authorities in the Netherlands have confirmed that one of its prisons in the northern part of the country can accommodate prisoners from Norway, which...

Packed prisons turn away convicts

Nearly 1,200 convicted criminals are waiting to serve their time at Norwegian prisons, because of a shortage of cell space in prisons that also need...
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