Norway Has the Best Prison In the World

Unreal prison.

Click link -- scroll down and click numbers 1-9:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/07/25/the_super_lux_super_max

The Kid Rasta

 

Vacation time...

Like en effin holiday resort. I almost want to book a flight there and pay to stay.

 

My friend did a paper about the prison system and he mentions Norways prisons, but seeing these pictures takes it to another level. Thats crazy, free dental, private bathrooms, flatscreens, mini fridges, recording studios and personal trainers. Wow.

 

wow...i am shocked...if we had prisons like that in the states...there would be no umemployment...everyone would just commit a crime and take some time off from work to get some rest...exercise...hang out and make new friends

 

No Crime & Punishment? More like...Crime & Rewarding...

 

Kind of disgusting that we have law-abiding homeless families here who sleep in their cars or park tents...why are we not crushing these small countries in terms of how well it treats its citizens. Americans have to unite and take this country back and make it the BEST place in the world to live.

 

C'mon, seriously?

I hope to God we don't give them aid, lol...( we don't)

 

In some foreign lands like Norway it is like Club Fed. However,no matter how clean the prison there will be some men who will be another man's b*tch.

 

Uhm, guys:

1)
We do have prisons that are cushy here in the US, Where did Martha Stewart go to prison?

2)
This is not a maximum security prison your looking at. There is only one prison in Norway that looks like that btw. A.B. Will not live a cushy life in a prison like this. Guaranteed - he will go to a maximum security prison.

3)
Norway, as a whole, believes in rehabilitation, not punishment - and also do not have crimes in the sense that we do in the US so their reality is vastly different than here. Since Norway believes in rehabilitation, prisons are not like here, although not as cushy as that one prison.

A.B will most likely never get out, after 21 years, they can evaluate him after the term and keep him for years and repeat that cycle until he dies. In prison.

I think that one prison is insane and stupid regardless, just fyi but don't think for a minute that this is what A.B. is getting.

 

The Kid Rasta

 

Just a thought: Norway has a much, much lower crime rate, and a much lower recidivism rate. Maybe that's got something to do with how their justice and prison systems operate.

 

sigh, I never said that Norway did not have murders etc. I said it does not have crimes in the sense we do - There is HUGE difference, don't get it twisted. The Scandinavian countries don't even come remotely close to teh US in violent crimes. Fact.

And, no that prison is not what a maximum security prisoner gets - that prison is for criminals that are believed to be rehabilitated. A/B is clearly not in that group. Trust, the prison he will go to will not have the privileges that this prison has.

sheesh/

 

That is what I said. KR apparently just wants to argue for argument sake.

 

Well Lady Love, riddle me this...

Do you see prison as more of a rehabilitation center or a place for punishment? I think it's an appropriate question since we all have different views on what a prison is built for.

I simply want your personal standing on it.

 

BBW - My opinion has nothing to do with what I said Norway's opinion is.
If you must know - I see it as both, but sure as heck do I believe in it as a punishment but rehabilitation must be a part of it or the prisoner will just go back to prison.
Is it possible to rehabilitate all criminals? Hell no, A/B is one of them and he will never get some cushy prison (in Norwegian standards to be clear, surely its much nicer than here, that we know).
Thus far, he is viewed as insane - apparently he thinks he is at war - and if the world is unlucky, he will end up in some sort of treatment facility. I sure hope not.

 

I never implied that at all, FG. I'm just curious as to what YOUR take is on the matter. It'd a good thread discussion after all...on a separate scale of course.

And thank you for your input. That's all I've asked.

 

Damn, that place is nicer than my house.

 

Also, the maximum sentence is 21 years. However, five-year increments can be added at the government's discretion, depending on the criminal. Breivik faces a life sentence, handed down incrementally.

The aim of this incarceration style is to avoid recidivism. The dehumanizing experience of doing time in a US prison is partly blamed for America's unusually high recidivism rate (over 60%)are re-arrested within three years). Norway's recidivism rate: roughly 20%.


This is the diametric opposite to the US prison system, which focuses on punishment. Also, Norway has a remarkably lower violent crime rate than the US, with 1/8 as many homicides per capita. Only 23 police officers have been killed in the line of duty in Norway since World War II. Anders Behring Breivik has confessed to carrying out the largest mass murder in Norway's history.



Continue reading at NowPublic.com: Norway Prison System: Will Breivik Go to Halden Fengsel Prison? | NowPublic News Coverage http://www.nowpublic.com/world/norw...den-fengsel-prison-2818593.html#ixzz1TTtwke39

According to Norwegian news, he is not going to Halden, this is something that seems to be perpetuated in foreign media. He is not, thus far considered as able to be rehabilitated - what is needed to go to Halden.