The report presents information on operating expenses of prisons as a whole, by open and closed institutions, by Copenhagen prisons and local prisons, and by Greenland's institutions. It provides statistics on increasing prison staffs by the above categories and data on both jail and prison capacities by number of places per institution. Figures are also given on numbers of offenders under probation; numbers of offenders admitted into institutions for the year; characteristics and offenses of inmates; reported number of disciplinary problems; use of solitary confinements and security cells; and escapes, leaves, and releases. A special chapter focuses on inmate drug users, a population singled out for special concern in 1978 by the Ministry of Justice. Prison industry programs are reported, including the metal, clothing, textile, wood, graphics, and other industries, as are inmate educational programs. The report concludes with a discussion of the organization of the corrections system, a description of job positions and personnel within the system, and special papers concerning libraries in institutions, the Solbysogard prison, and predictions of prison capacities in 1980.