Denmark
Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale. It gives an account of the preceding year’s events.
Danemark : Pourquoi le pays veut envoyer 300 détenus dans une prison du Kosovo
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Danish prisons switch off internet for inmates after extremist content found on Playstations
Denmark’s prisons agency Kriminalforsorgen has taken new steps to prevent the spread of extremist material in the country’s jails. Citing security, the agency has shut down an online network used by prisoners in secured facilities, newspaper Jyllands-Posten reports.Denmark: immigration detention, where officials celebrate the deprivation of liberty of “rejected asylum seekers”
Denmark has pursued increasingly restrictive immigration and asylum policies. Observers have repeatedly criticised the penitentiary-like conditions of Denmark’s main immigration detention centre as well as inadequate efforts to identify victims of torture, who can be subject to detention.