In 2013, Denmark’s Prison and Probation Service, which administers the prison system in Greenland, launched a competition to design Nuuk’s new jail. A team that i… See more

Scandinavian countries have pioneered humane prison design because “their societies are characterized by a strong welfare state and relatively high levels of trust,” acco… See more

The other thing that sets apart Scandinavian prison design is size. Prisons that look like boutique hotels typically house no more than 250 inmates. In Scandinavi… See more

Humane prisons are seen as prohibitively expensive. Running Norways’s Halden prison costs $150,000 per prisoner per year, according to the Norwegian Correctiona… See more