Sweden is preparing prisons for 13-year-olds because of rising gang crime. According to dw, Sweden plans to hold 13-year-olds criminally responsible and imprison them in serious cases of gang-related crime. The government says the softly-softly approach of the past has failed and it is time to get tough by imprisoning children under 15 instead of using social interventions, as reported by scmp. A surge in gang-related shootings and bombings over the last decade, dozens of which were carried out by minors, has created an urgent problem for Swedish authorities, according to scmp. Other European nations are also lowering age limits for criminal responsibility, as reported by dw.