San Quentin's death row cells have been modified into more humane housing, and inmates appear more like students as they move ...

Incarcerated residents share a meal with a correctional officer for the first time in SCI Chester's Little Scandinavia unit. A Pennsylvania prison is testing a new approach that gives incarcerated ...

Kevin Amir Bowman, spent 34 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In 1989, he was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault, conspiracy, and weapons violations. The state granted ...

Less than a week after wrapping up this year’s legislative session, a group of state lawmakers flew to Norway with California corrections officials and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg to tour the ...

Newsom transforms San Quentin into a $239M Scandinavian-style rehab campus with filmmaking, journalism, coding, trades.

Ongoing research by Jordan Hyatt, PhD, JD, an associate professor and director of the Center for Public Policy, testing a Scandinavian-inspired approach to incarceration to reduce recidivism rates in ...

Pennsylvania’s prison system is looking to expand its model “Little Scandinavia” unit — which aims to create a more humane environment inside prisons — following the success of the pilot project, the ...

For many people who end up in prison, efforts at rehabilitation are hampered by historic, pervasive and deeply embedded social inequalities. The bloated prison system in England and Wales has become a ...