On April 8, 2010, in the Norwegian city of Halden, the Norwegian King Harald V solemnly opened a prison for people who committed serious crimes. This prison in Norway has been haunted by photographers and journalists for three years. Members of the press admire the interior and living conditions of prisoners.
Halden Fengsel is a Norwegian prison located on thirty-two hectares of pine forest and furnished as a three-star hotel. The construction and equipment of the penitentiary complex lasted ten years. For this purpose, one and a half billion Norwegian kroner (two hundred fifty-two million US dollars) was spent from the country's budget.
The most famous prison in Norway is designed for two hundred and fifty prisoners. The maintenance of each convict in Halden Fengsel annually costs one million seventy nine thousand NOK (about one hundred eighty five thousand US dollars).
At first glance at a cozy room with an area of twelve square meters and you can not say that this is a prison. In Norway, prisoners spend up to twenty-one years in such cells with designer furniture. Legislation no longer allows. It has a shower, fridge and LCD TV on the wall. Windows without bars are equipped with durable glass.
The most humane prison in Norway so far does without a pool, but prisoners are allowed to spend an hour and a half daily in the gym.
There are production workshops in the prison, but no one makes them work. If a prisoner wants to work hard, then a day he can earn more than fifty-two Norwegian kroner (up to nine US dollars).
In a Norwegian prison paradise, prisoners should be kept in cells from half past eight in the evening until half past seven in the morning. All the rest of the time they can freely move around the territory and even walk without protection in a pine forest.
Halden Fengsel is also the calmest prison in Norway. Most guards are women who work without weapons. The guards eat and go in for sports along with killers, drug addicts and rapists. For three years in prison no shoots and fights were recorded.
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Norwegian prison, prisoners eat in the common dining room. If you are tired of prison food, you are allowed to cook your own food yourself.
The main attraction of Halden Fengsel is a recording studio. The local music group records their albums and weekly broadcasts here.
The prison has a library, a winter garden, school premises, a shop.
Prisoners are entitled to three family calls during the week. For long meetings with relatives in the prison built cottages.
Many have the erroneous opinion that the terrorist Anders Breivik, who was sentenced to twenty-one years in prison in the summer of 2012, is serving his sentence in Halden Fengsel. The breivik is kept elsewhere and under close surveillance. Breivik's prison, a photo of which can be found on the Internet, is called Ila.
The cell of the Norwegian terrorist is located in a heavily guarded wing of a male prison and consists of three rooms of eight square meters (office, gym, bedroom). Breivik is allowed only correspondence and walks in the courtyard under the supervision of guards. Despite these conditions of detention, a man who deliberately killed seventy-seven people calls names of guards sadists for sometimes not bringing him enough hot coffee.