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Norway
Capital city —
Oslo
Country population
5,372,355
i
2020
/
Statistics Norway
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
56
i
01/02/2021
/
World Prison Brief, ICPR
Type of government
Constitutional monarchy
Human Development Index
0.953
(1/188)
i
2017
/
UNDP
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
0.5
i
2017
/
UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice and Public Security
i
(JD,
Justis- og beredskapsdepartementet
)
Total number of prisoners
2,921
There were 2,921…
i
06/2021
/ Norway.mw
Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
10.7
months (323 days)
i
2018
/ KDI
Prison density
83 %
i
2021
/
World Prison Brief, ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
34
consisting of 58…
i
2020
/
Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research – ICPR
An NPM has been established
yes, in 2014
Female prisoners
4.5 %
i
05/2021
/
KDI
Incarcerated minors
0.3 %
i
05/2021
/
KDI
Percentage of untried prisoners
24 %
i
2018
/ KDI
Death penalty is abolished
yes, since 1979
+
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Key websites
¶
Institute for Criminal Policy Research
: World Prison Brief Data
Kriminalomsorgen
- NCS (Norwegian Correctional Service)
(in Norwegian)
Kriminalomsogens høgskole og utdanningssenter
- KRUS
: Correctional Service of Norway Staff Academy
Kriminalomsorgens yrkesforbund
- KY
: Professional Federation of the Prison Service (in Norwegian)
Norsk Fengsels- og Friomsorgsforbund
- NFF
: Norwegian Union of Prison and Probation Services (in Norwegian)
Sivilombudsmannen
- Parliamentary Ombudsman
(in Norwegian)
Legal documents
¶
Criminal Procedure Act
, May 1981, last amended in 30 June 2006 (in Norwegian)
Execution of Sentences Act (ESA)
, March 2002, last amended in 24 September 2018 (in Norwegian)
Penal Code
, October 2005, last amended in 27 December 2018 (in Norwegian)
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
, September 1990
Reports
¶
Committee against Torture, “
Concluding observations on the eighth periodic report of Norway
”, 2018
Council of Europe, “
Annual Penal Statistics. Space I – Prison Populations. Survey 2015
”, 2016
Council of Europe, “
Report to the Norwegian Government on the visit to Norway carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 28 May to 5 June 2018)
”, 2019
Norwegian NGO-Forum for Human Rights, “
Stakeholder report from the Norwegian NGO-Forum for Human Rights in relation to the UPR 3rd cycle review of Norway in 2019
”, October 2018
Parliamentary Ombudsman (
Sivilombudsmannen
), “
Women in Prison: a thematic report about the conditions for female prisoners in Norway
”, 2017
Scientific publications press articles
¶
Hedda Giertsen, “Prison and Welfare in Norway” in M. Pavarini and L. Ferrari (eds),
No Prison
, 2018, 230 p.
Official documents
¶
Southern Region Correctional Service (
Kriminalomsorgen region sør
),
Nordre Vestfold prison Hof unit
, June 2017, 19 min.
Ministry of Justice and Public Security,
2019 Proposal Budget
(in Norwegian)
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