STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish jail inmates have gone on strike after authorities cut down on weight-lifting and exercise sessions to stop prisoners becoming too muscle-bound.
The prisoners, whose protest sparked no violence, were locked in their cells after refusing to attend any workshops or study sessions. Around 1,000 inmates from 20 of Sweden's 60 prisons protested.
"We want to offer them other ways to keep fit and to take away some of the heavy weights," Swedish jail system security chief Christer Isaksson told Reuters on Monday.
"We don't feel it is part of the mission that society has given us to create ... over-sized muscle builders."
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