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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
Mon Oct 27, 2014, 04:47 PM Oct 2014

US prison boss visits Norway prisons and cant believe his eyes

After being shown wire hangers in the closets, Conway voices his surprise and warns that inmates could fashion the top into an 'ice-pick-type weapon

://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2809131/This-prison-utopia-Former-U-S-prison-boss-t-believe-eyes-visits-Norwegian-jail-finds-kitchen-knives-xbox-recording-studio.html

How the other half live: US prison boss can't believe his eyes when he visits a Norwegian jail and finds beautiful ten-man apartments with dartboards and recording studios
James Conway got the shock of his life after visiting a prison in Norway
Retired US superintendent saw the inmates had a large TV and dartboard
There was a recording studio and the kitchen had real knives and forks 
Mr Conway said he didn't waste time worrying about well-being of inmates


















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US prison boss visits Norway prisons and cant believe his eyes (Original Post) Liberal_in_LA Oct 2014 OP
And, unlike the USA private-prison hell-holes 99th_Monkey Oct 2014 #1
 

99th_Monkey

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1. And, unlike the USA private-prison hell-holes
Mon Oct 27, 2014, 05:01 PM
Oct 2014

Norway's prisons are relatively WAY under-subscribed. 72 per 100,000.

Compared to the USA's 707 per 100,000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate

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