The Vision Behind Halden Prison Halden Prison in Norway is not your average correctional facility. In fact, it feels more like a high-end resort than a traditional prison.

When American prison warden James Conway visited Halden, he was shocked at the inmates' access to potential weapons. The metal top of this hanger could easily be fashioned into an "ice-pick-type ...

No two prisons make that difference more clear than the super-max Administrative Security Facility, or ADX Florence, in Florence, Colorado and Halden Prison, in Halden, Norway.

COMMENTING on a shared link to a Time slideshow offering a tour of Norway's Halden prison, the "world's most human prison", one of my Facebook friends says, "If you prefer comfort to liberty, go ...

The prison in Halden, Norway, shown here in April 2010, is surrounded by a 25-foot-high concrete wall and little else to suggest it's a maximum-security facility. The emphasis is on treating the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to change how incarceration is done in the Golden State, using concepts pioneered in Scandinavia. California prison guards visited Norway to see what it would mean.

Italian photographer Gughi Fassinobecame obsessed with the contemporary architecture and design of the Halden prison in Norway, and he set out to do a photo story about it. He discovered that the ...

Central to the experience were days spent at Halden Prison in Norway, near the southern border with Sweden, and Bärby, a juvenile justice facility just north of Stockholm. For Emma Nolan, a ...

Home Culture & Life Tv Radio Features The jail where every prisoner gets a flat-screen TV and private shower In Norway's Halden prison, murderers, rapists, and pedophiles live in relative luxury ...

A luxury prison containing en-suite bathrooms, £1 million Banksy-style art and windows without bars, has been built in Norway.