A beautiful prison
Why Greenland is opening up its first prison, after years as a modern prison-less society.
Greenland has been detangling its colonised relationship with Denmark since World War Two. Along the way, each state service and law needs to be rewritten. In 1948, three young Danes were sent to research and write Greenland’s first Criminal Law. They hoped they were writing a blueprint for the world’s first modern prison-less society. Instead their social experiment put the nation in a 70-year-long limbo. Now, Greenland has finally opened its first prison. We hear from Greenlanders inside the building, as they build their own, new prison system from the ground up.
Presenters: Shirin Neshat, Katz Laszlo and Lene Bech Sillesen.
Producers: Katz Laszlo and Lene Bech Sillesen, with production support from The Europeans podcast.
(Photo: Nuuk's former open instutition. Credit: Katz Laszlo)
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Rulebreakers: Greenland's beautiful prison
Duration: 03:07
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- Wed 2 Sep 202010:32GMTBBC World Service
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