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Are you sure that jails even exist in Sweden? I would be surprised. Isn’t that some kind of weird American quirk? This brochure from the Swedish government [0]
by ugh 16y ago
Are you sure that jails even exist in Sweden? I would be surprised. Isn’t that some kind of weird American quirk?
This brochure from the Swedish government [0] differentiates between remand prisons and correctional facilities (of varying security levels), no mention of anything else at all.
[0] http://www.regeringen.se/content/1/c4/33/41/0feab306.pdf http://www.regeringen.se/content/1/c4/33/41/0feab306.pdf (PDF)
- woodall 16y agoIt looks like a 'remand prison' is similar to the common law 'jail'. remand prison: Where people who are suspected of offenses and who have been detained by a court while waiting for trial are held.[from the link above] [0] http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Remand+prison http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Remand+prison
- ugh 16y agoI’m seriously confused by the US law system and apparently, also by the Swedish one. At least I found out that in my native Germany “jails” (that’s how it’s translated) don’t exist any longer but apparently did until 1970. Germany has now only prisons, someone who is kept in custody prior to the trial is in exactly the same building as those who are properly in prison.
- woodall 16y agoI meet someone on ChatRoulette once who was an intern at one of the courts in Germany. During our conversation it became obvious that English Common Law and Germanic/Salic Law are two different beast. It is important to remember that there is no universal set of rules, as cultures value things differently.