Rulebreakers: A beautiful prison
Why Greenland is opening up its first prison, after years as a modern prison-less society
The Documentary Podcast · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
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.