No iron bars. No individual cells. Everyone can roam anywhere on the island and they get to make 2 calls per day. Use horses to work and have a great supply of fresh eggs. Read the story @ http://www.businessinsider.com/bast...ne-of-the-most-liberal-prisons-in-the-world-1
You can't let the " 'murcans " know that there is a way to run prisons other than massive walls and iron bars. After all, in the US it's the only form of public housing that's been invested in for the past 4 decades.
If we ended the war on drugs and communicated all drug sentences we could shut half the prisons down in a month but no we wanna play this stupid game of criminalizing drug use
This is a small prison--115 beds. It's populated by a selected group of prisoners, who have been chosen for Basically speaking, if a prisoner is an escape risk, they keep him in a conventional prison. It's a nice liberal fantasy that this prison is a maximum security prison for violent inmates, but pretty much this is the equivalent of an American "country club" prison. It's for select prisoners who aren't a danger to society. With that kind of prisoner, you can draw a line on the ground, and they won't escape. The quote above is from the prison's English language website. (link below) http://www.bastoyfengsel.no/English/straffegjennomforing-Eng.html
Yes, but probably the majority of the people in American prisons would fit into this type of group. America locks away all sorts of people for non-violent crimes, for many many years, often the crime was not even that bad.
