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Protests rise over hotel quarantine May 12, 2021 Complaints about Norway’s new hotel quarantine rules continue to pour in. They’re supposed to apply to everyone arriving from outside the EU and Schengen areas, but defense personnel, as many as 2,000 foreign service employees, their familes and the diplomatic corps in Oslo are exempt. Both legal and medical experts are now raising objections. Several hotels located around Norway’s gateway airport OSL Gardermoen, including this one, have been or are being used to quarantine most everyone arriving from outside the EU and Schengen areas. PHOTO: Nordic Choice Hotels Members of the international diplomatic corps stationed at their countries’ embassies or consulates in Norway have always enjoyed special privileges. They don’t have to spend 10 days in a quarantine hotel after arriving in Norway, nor do Norwegian diplomats. The government argues that those working for the Norwegian Foreign Ministry abroad, along ....
Where Incarceration Isn’t the Answer Where Incarceration Isn’t the Answer Where Incarceration Isn’t the Answer Frustrations with the U.S. prison system have prompted a global search for alternatives. Yet the solution might not be as simple as “be like Scandinavia.” Winter 2021 Nov 3, 2020 Despite declining incarceration rates in some states, the United States still outpaces the rest of the world when it comes to putting human beings in cages. The U.S. is home to approximately 20% of all prisoners in the world even though it has only 4.4% of the world’s population. A staggering 2.12 million people are in U.S. prisons instead of in the communities they call home. ....