Description: This prison in Nuuk is an open prison and called Anstalten for domfældte (Institution for convicted). Prisoners here can do their normal work so so go to their ordinary job as fisherman, carpenter or what ever they do. They are "released at morning and comes back in the afternoon or evening when the job is done.
Harder criminals can be sent to Herstedvester prison at Copenhagen.
Prisons like this one you find in Aasiaat, Ilulissat, Sisimiut and Qaqortoq too.
The judging system in Greenland is unique comared to other countries. Judges doesn't existin ordinary courts. Offenders are convicted or released by ordinary people at court.
Only at high court procecutors, lawyers and judges attend. |