Rulebreakers: A beautiful prison

Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 11:01 a.m.

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\u2019s first Criminal Law. They hoped they were writing a blueprint for the world\u2019s first modern prison-less society. Instead their social experiment put the nation in a 70-year-long limbo.