Last week I went to Oslo and visited several prisons together with Keith Strandberg (www.keithstrandberg.com) who is a senior editor of Corrections Forum, a US prison magazine. It was a very interesting visit coordinated by the Norwegian justice Department. Amongst the prisons we visited were Halden Prison and Bastoy prison. Norway practises a philosophy of education in order to improve the chances of people not recommitting crimes, a philosophy that proves to work pretty well when reading the statistics..
Keith Strandberg talking to the Prison Director studying the plan of Halden Prison |
High Security cell |
Prisoner music studio |
The wall |
Vegetation is used to create a nice atmosphere |
Prisoners can have family staying over for weekends. Particularly families living far away uses this possibility |
The entrance of the prison |
Bastoy prison is a farm like facility on an island in the Oslo fjord |
The prison has got no walls and public access via a ferry |
High court in Oslo |
1 comment:
Nice.. wouldn't mind being a prisoner there:)
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