New Prison with €1,000,000 spent on artwork!

CrazyRabbit

Bloody hell! This 'prison' sounds nicer than most hotels I've stayed in.

Has the world gone mad?

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3699934.html?menu=news.quirkies

Prison bosses are about to open the world's most luxurious jail with flatscreen TVs, its own recording studio - and even Banksy style murals.

The £160 million prison, near Oslo, Norway, gives 252 inmates a single en suite cell with its own bathroom and windows without bars.
Inside the maximum security prison, authorities have lavished more than £1 million on modern art, and even provided prisoners with a climbing wall.
Governor Arne Hoidal - who opens the jail next month - said: "We are very proud of what we have achieved.
"None of the windows have bars and they are made of unbreakable security glass so that people do not feel too claustrophobic."

Coriolanus

Norway, and Scandanavia in general, has some of the lowest rates of recidivism in the western world. I'd say whatever they're doing is worth emulating.

mikom

Was gonna make a pun about prisons, but there's Norway I'd go Oslo as that.

Biggins

mikom wrote: »

Was gonna make a pun about prisons, but there's Norway I'd go Oslo as that.

You've been waiting for a golden opportunity to use that haven't you! :pac:
Still good.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

I'd stay there.:p
That will hugely increase the amount of re-offenders, imo and if it's high security it could mean more fighting and stuff in lower security prisons to get there.

Diabhal Beag

Probably the same sh1t ones you'd see in the waiting room for a dentist

Hazys

My rent is costing too much at the mo, i'm off to Norway to murder somebody.

CianRyan

Climbing walls, flat screen TVs and art?

I am going to Norway, do not be surprised if I do not post for a while.




My computer will not let me us apostrophes?!

CianRyan

Hazys wrote: »

My rent is costing too much at the mo, i'm off to Norway to murder somebody.

Ah **** you, I bet that was only a few seconds quicker!

Hazys

CianRyan wrote: »

Ah **** you, I bet that was only a few seconds quicker!

Wanna a settle it with a knife fight in the main square in Oslo?

Loser dies, winner takes a bed in the swanky Norway prison.

dvpower

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Prison bosses are about to open the world's most luxurious jail with flatscreen TVs, its own recording studio - and even Banksy style murals.

It's got graffiti .

Danbo!

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

en suite cell with its own bathroom

As opposed to en-suite without its own bathroom?

dvpower

Stee wrote: »

As opposed to en-suite without its own bathroom?

An en-suite cell without its own bathroom is just a cell with another smaller adjoining cell.

minidazzler

It's all well and good it being like an apartment, but remember, you are not allowed leave!!

So unless they have internet with access to boards it's no good to me!

goose2005

Do they really want burglars to get better at climbing walls??

citizen_p

well they have lowest rate of reoffenders....only thing id be worried about is homless people wanting to go to prison.

Somnus

Mousey- wrote: »

well they have lowest rate of reoffenders....only thing id be worried about is homless people wanting to go to prison.

There would always be the chance that people without much to lose would break the law to try and end up in there. Could happen.

They might have lowest rates of reoffenders, but I doubt anything like that here.
I can imagine the thought of prison being like a holiday would only makes things better for the scum here.

dlofnep

So what? Maybe some petty criminals won't feel like filth in prison, and will have a good chance at reforming. It seems like a better environment to reform, than our drug invested prisons, which only make people worse than when they went in.

An ex-friend of mine went into prison as a petty thief, who took the occasional E. He came out a heroin addicted, begby-like nutcase, who stole 2000 on my brother and left him without a penny in Spain.

Yeah, great ****ing prison system we have.

Coriolanus

Dr.Poca wrote: »

There would always be the chance that people without much to lose would break the law to try and end up in there. Could happen.

They might have lowest rates of reoffenders, but I doubt anything like that here.
I can imagine the thought of prison being like a holiday would only makes things better for the scum here.

Considering you have to do something pretty serious to get put in a high-security prison.... I don't think that's too likely.

PCPhoto

will the norwegian junkies still be able to get "gear" in this new swanky prison ...they get all the fancy gadgets and material goods ...but whats the point in going to jail if ya cant get a score !!!


wonder if the mobile phone reception will be any good ?

Pherekydes

CianRyan wrote: »

My computer will not let me us apostrophes?!

That's not a crime. Not knowing how to use them is*.











*But you won't get jail time, even in Norway.

stovelid

Any word on the "playstations in the cells" yet?

Norwayviking

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Bloody hell! This 'prison' sounds nicer than most hotels I've stayed in.

Has the world gone mad?

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3699934.html?menu=news.quirkies

Prison bosses are about to open the world's most luxurious jail with flatscreen TVs, its own recording studio - and even Banksy style murals.

The £160 million prison, near Oslo, Norway, gives 252 inmates a single en suite cell with its own bathroom and windows without bars.
Inside the maximum security prison, authorities have lavished more than £1 million on modern art, and even provided prisoners with a climbing wall.
Governor Arne Hoidal - who opens the jail next month - said: "We are very proud of what we have achieved.
"None of the windows have bars and they are made of unbreakable security glass so that people do not feel too claustrophobic."

Every criminals paradise.The eletric chair would have been cheaper.