On Friday, the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management issued first-degree storm warnings for most of the country, ...

Renting prison places abroad was a key component of the Tidö Agreement, the aim of which was to remedy the shortage of places ...

To help reduce its 141% occupancy rate in incarceration facilities, Stockholm plans to transfer between 400 and 600 prisoners ...

Sweden will send up to 600 criminals to serve their sentences in an Estonian prison under an agreement announced by the government on Wednesday aimed at reducing pressure on the country's overcrowded ...

The plan to rent out Estonian prison space to Sweden would generate revenue for the state, but it also requires the hiring of ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden will send up to 600 criminals to serve their sentences in an Estonian prison under an agreement announced by the government on Wednesday aimed at reducing pressure on ...

A new agreement between Sweden and Estonia means that up to 600 criminals convicted in Sweden could serve time in prisons in ...

Sweden said Wednesday it had reached an agreement with Estonia to rent prison cells for up to 600 prisoners who could serve ...

"Sweden's prison system .. is under tremendous pressures and in that situation needs a plan for expansion to deal with that." Sweden will pay 8,500 euros ($9,680) a month per inmate, a saving on ...

Estonia will lease space at Tartu Prison to Sweden and accept up to 600 criminals under a new agreement being negotiated ...