https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed She was headed for the electric chair in Florida, he for the gallows in Ireland: both escaped death row and are now an unlikely couple campaigning for an end to capital punishment. https://www.thelocal.no/20160622/from-death-row-to-romance-ex-con-couple-beats-the-odds Wed, 22 Jun 2016 10:34:54 +0200 from-death-row-to-romance-ex-con-couple-beats-the-odds Controversial American director Michael Moore visited Norway and a handful of other European countries for his film 'Where to Invade Next', which hits Norwegian theatres on Friday. https://www.thelocal.no/20160415/michael-moore-invades-norway-in-his-latest-film Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:03:09 +0200 michael-moore-invades-norway-in-his-latest-film Norway on Tuesday sent a group of convicts to a jail in the Netherlands for the first time because its own prisons are filled to the brim. https://www.thelocal.no/20150901/norway-sends-first-convicts-to-dutch-luxury-prison Tue, 01 Sep 2015 23:34:47 +0200 norway-sends-first-convicts-to-dutch-luxury-prison An inmate at Norway's Halden prison hacked the TV system so he could share pornographic films and secret messages with fellow prisoners. https://www.thelocal.no/20150824/norway-inmate-hacks-tv-so-can-share-porn Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:05:54 +0200 norway-inmate-hacks-tv-so-can-share-porn A prisoner has escaped from an island prison in Norway by sneaking out of a window, stealing an old surfboard and paddling the three kilometres to shore with a toy spade. https://www.thelocal.no/20150805/prisoner-breaks-free-with-surfboard-and-toy-spade Wed, 05 Aug 2015 22:10:50 +0200 prisoner-breaks-free-with-surfboard-and-toy-spade Norway's prisoners may have to make do with less porn after the country's prison authorities ruled that inmates can be denied access to titillating material if it "threatens peace, order and security". https://www.thelocal.no/20150730/norway-inmates-face-porno-ban Fri, 31 Jul 2015 00:35:38 +0200 norway-inmates-face-porno-ban Norway’s justice minister has announced plans to jail asylum seekers if they do not have a good enough reason to seek refuge in Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20150703/norway-to-jail-fake-asylum-seekers Fri, 03 Jul 2015 18:52:49 +0200 norway-to-jail-fake-asylum-seekers Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik has been threatened in prison by another inmate, despite living under the highest security of any prisoner in Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20150611/norway-killer-breivik-threatened-in-prison Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:55:35 +0200 norway-killer-breivik-threatened-in-prison A Dutch court ruled Friday that long-term prisoners who currently enjoy countryside views and cook their own food must vacate their "luxury" cells to make way for Norwegian convicts. https://www.thelocal.no/20150306/dutch-inmates-must-make-way-for-norwegians Fri, 06 Mar 2015 20:20:22 +0100 dutch-inmates-must-make-way-for-norwegians Norway on Monday signed a deal to rent 242 prison places in The Netherlands, hoping to cut the queue of Norwegian criminals waiting to serve their sentences. https://www.thelocal.no/20150302/norway-signs-deal-to-rent-dutch-prison-places Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:58:00 +0100 norway-signs-deal-to-rent-dutch-prison-places A Norwegian prison is to bring in a local imam to prevent Muslim inmates becoming radicalised in the same way as the young Dane who carried out brutal twin attacks in Copenhagen over the weekend. https://www.thelocal.no/20150219/norway-prison-sends-imam-to-muslim-inmates Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:44:03 +0100 norway-prison-sends-imam-to-muslim-inmates Norway's prison authorities said Monday they had seized over 200 letters from mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik to prevent him from setting up a network outside jail. https://www.thelocal.no/20141222/breivik-letters-seized-by-norway-jailers Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:07:46 +0100 breivik-letters-seized-by-norway-jailers Convicted terrorist Anders Behring Breivik stands accused of another crime, that of exhausting his prison guards with his 'celebrity' status and relentlessy manipulative behaviour, it was revealed on Friday. https://www.thelocal.no/20141114/anders-behring-breivik-exhausts-us-say-prison-staff Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:23:00 +0100 anders-behring-breivik-exhausts-us-say-prison-staff Anders Behring Breivik, who murdered 77 people in Norway in 2011, says he wants to establish a "fascist" party from prison, claiming this could prevent a repeat of his massacre. https://www.thelocal.no/20140906/killer-breivik-wants-to-start-fascist-party Sat, 06 Sep 2014 10:22:00 +0200 killer-breivik-wants-to-start-fascist-party A 31-year-old man is going on trial in Norway charged with committing violent offences against no fewer than 50 prison officers. https://www.thelocal.no/20140609/man-in-court-for-violence-against-50 Tue, 10 Jun 2014 01:24:00 +0200 man-in-court-for-violence-against-50 The number of foreigners in Norwegian prisons has quadrupled in the past 14 years. The reason: the jails are too nice - at least according to some lawyers and police officers. https://www.thelocal.no/20140602/norways-cushy-prisons-spurring-foreign-cons Mon, 02 Jun 2014 20:45:00 +0200 norways-cushy-prisons-spurring-foreign-cons Norway's Ila high security prison will next week release a multiple rapist and murderer who has for 30 years been considered too dangerous to be let out on parole. https://www.thelocal.no/20140521/ila-prison-to-release-repeat-rapist Wed, 21 May 2014 18:27:14 +0200 ila-prison-to-release-repeat-rapist Sweden is planning to turn down Norway's request to be able to rent out empty space in its prisons, the country's justice minister Beatice Ask has said, arguing that doing so would be too complicated as it probably require the two countries to change their laws. https://www.thelocal.no/20140205/sweden-to-reject-norways-plea-to-share-prisons Wed, 05 Feb 2014 22:41:00 +0100 sweden-to-reject-norways-plea-to-share-prisons A man in Norway was last week sentenced to 14 months in prison for demolishing his elder brother's house with a fork-lift truck. https://www.thelocal.no/20140124/main-jailed-for-trashing-brothers-house-with-fork-life Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:41:00 +0100 main-jailed-for-trashing-brothers-house-with-fork-life Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Breivik has complained that he has been subject to hundreds of strip searches, many involving "grabbing inspections", in a 30-page letter sent to several news organisations and an anti-torture watchdog. https://www.thelocal.no/20140110/breivik-complains-of-prison-grabbing-inspections Fri, 10 Jan 2014 23:06:00 +0100 breivik-complains-of-prison-grabbing-inspections