The Swedish government said Wednesday that it was examining the possibility of sending some inmates to serve their sentences ...

Swedish citizens could be among those sent to foreign prisons - though it would not be the first such scheme in the EU.

As Sweden grapples with prison overcrowding and gang crime grips Stockholm, politicians are concocting a plan to send ...

Sweden can send criminals to serve their sentences in prisons abroad, a government-appointed commission said on Wednesday, as ...

As Sweden faces rising gang crime and an overburdened prison system, a government-appointed commission suggests sending ...

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced Thursday to accelerate the enactment of a law that allows wiretapping of children under 15 to combat organized crime in the country.  The law would ...

An Iranian man has gone on trial in Sweden over the mass execution and torture of prisoners in the 1980s. Hamid Nouri, 60, was reportedly a deputy prosecutor at Gohardasht prison near Tehran at ...

"There is a need to work with new solutions within the Prison and Probation Service," Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer told a news conference, saying Sweden was already in talks with other ...