Norway: At Bastøy, a low-security "open prison," the inmates prepare their own breakfast and dinner with their earned wages of 6 euros a day, reported by The Guardian.

Without locked gates or barbed wire, the prison operates with solar panels, wood-fire heating instead of oil, strict recycling, and eco-friendly food production — a 10-year project officials say was ...

You could consider doing a crime in Norway, so you can be sent to this prison. Prisons are known to be harsh and inhumane, but this one in particular is like being on vacation. Bastøy prison in ...

Link: Strange But True: Norway Announces First "Ecological Prison" (TreeHugger). "Prisons probably aren't the first buildings that spring to mind when you think about green design and architecture ...

Every year, grocery stores in Norway throw away 250.000 dumpsters worth of edible food / Publicis Kitchen In Norway, taking expired food from public bins and refuse collections is illegal and can ...

Prison doesn't mean torture in Norway. If we want to rehabilitate prisoners, life in prison should resemble life outside prison. By Buchanan Waller. September 19, 2023 at 10:38PM.

Norway has seen a sharp decline in crime, with almost 90,000 cases recorded over the last ten years, lowering the crime rate from 79 per 1,000 residents in 2012 to 56 in 2022. It’s a prison for ...