Russia releases Norwegian ex-border inspector in 3-way spy swap involving Lithuania
Ex-border inspector Frode Berg is now on his way home to Kirkenes, Arctic Norway after 23 months in FSB’s notorious
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Alaska prisons filling up since state’s reversal on justice reform
The Alaska Department of Corrections is planning to send hundreds of inmates to prisons outside of Alaska. The department says
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Inmates in Northern Canada jail denounce unfair punishments through ‘kangaroo court’
Prisoners at Nunavut’s biggest jail say they’re being unfairly punished for breaking jail rules by an internal court that doesn’t
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New Corrections Act brings big changes to jails in Canada’s Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories’ overhaul of its corrections law could be a new model for reconciliation and offer inmates “a light
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Canadian eastern Arctic: Inuit values, inmate care, focus of new Nunavut Corrections Act
Nunavut’s new Corrections Act focuses on Inuit participation, mental health for inmates, and creates an independent oversight position for the
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Russian court sentences Norwegian ex-border inspector to 14 years for espionage
Frode Berg, a former border inspector from Kirkenes, Arctic Norway, does not appeal the sentence delivered by the Moscow City
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Proposed Alaska budget: send inmates out of state to cut correctional services spending
Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy’s proposed budget for the Department of Corrections cuts $19 million from this year’s budget. About $12.8
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Alaska: When stepping back into prison is a jump forward on the road to recovery
Alexandria Niksik has been in and out of prison for seven years. Her most recent return home only lasted 16
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Language barrier in northern Quebec can make court baffling for Inuit, justice workers say
For Inuit in Quebec accused of breaking the law, the first of many barriers to equal treatment in the justice
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Judge rules three-year mandatory minimum ‘abhorrent and intolerable’ in Canada’s east-Arctic
A Nunavut judge has struck down a three-year mandatory minimum firearms sentence as cruel and unusual punishment. It’s yet another
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Norway releases Russian man detained over suspicion of espionage
Mikhail Bochkarev, the Russian state official who has been in a Norwegian jail for almost a month, has gone home
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Canada: lack of detention facilities in Quebec’s North violates charter rights, says Superior Court
The Public Security Ministry has failed to offer equal services for Inuit people serving minor sentences, a Quebec Superior Court
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Offender who stabbed man in heart in Northern Canada to be released from prison
A man from Kimmirut, Nunavut (Northeast Canada), will be released from prison in a couple of weeks, about four years
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Inmates in Northern Canadian jail say conditions deteriorating since June riot
WARNING: This story contains some explicit language Some inmates at the Baffin Correctional Centre say conditions have gotten worse for
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Director of decrepit jail in eastern Canadian Arctic expects more riots
When the supervisor at the Baffin Correctional Centre (BCC) started their shift on last Wednesday night, their staff told them
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