Finland, long heralded as a pioneer in humane prison practices, is trying to bridge this gap. Over the past two years, some Finnish prisons have introduced AI-related tasks to inmates, moving ...

So perhaps it's no surprise that the Finland's prisoners are some of the happiest as well. In Finland's "open prison" system, there are no gates or locks — inmates come and go in their own cars.

Finland's Prison and Probation Service provides rehabilitative support to prisoners, including cognitive behavioral therapy and psychological work. Finland’s penal system, ...

In Finland, prisoners have been participating in AI annotation tasks, such as labelling and classifying data, as part of their rehabilitation. With the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI ...

A prison in Turku, a city in the south of Finland, has become a testing ground for a new smart prisons project. In some wards of the prison, ...

Finland is famous for its progressive prison policies. Approximately one-third of the country’s prisons are so-called open prisons, where inmates live and work like normal citizens.

In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners.

Currently in Finland there are 11 open prisons and 15 closed prisons. Finland’s prison system has garnered a lot of media attention from abroad, much of it positive. The stories include including ...

Hämeenlinna, a town in southern Finland and an hour train ride away from Helsinki, is home to Vanaja men’s prison. A former worker’s colony, it became an open prison in the 1990s.

Fouganthine has made a string of prison break attempts over the years. In 1994, he took a guard hostage and escaped from Riihimaki prison, in southern Finland, but was arrested hours later.