https://www.vox.com/videos/2019/4/12/18301911/norway-humane-prison
Its look is all part of a plan to create a more humane prison, one where the architecture isn't part of the punishment. Most prisons around the world are consolidated into one single building

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v13wrVEQ2M
There's a better way to design prison architecture.Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-labHalden Prison in Norway looks sort of like a fancy dorm

https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/architectural-community/a9023-how-norway-designed-a-more-humane-prison/
How Norway designed a more humane prison. 5 Mins Read. A country like Norway prioritises inmates' human rights, which boasts a low recidivism rate of 20%. Jails like Halden are considered the most humane prison in the world, and the Norwegian government spends a hefty amount to make it possible. This article focuses on factors like how the

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/magazine/the-radical-humaneness-of-norways-halden-prison.html
The goal of the Norwegian penal system is to get inmates out of it. Even prisons are subject to Norway's requirement that every building receiving public money have some sort of public art. Here

https://current-digest.com/norway-prison/
How Norway Designed A More Humane Prison? by Current Digest July 31, 2021, 12:52 AM. Norway's prison is renowned for being the most humane in the world. A place looks like they're from a hotel or a fancy college dorm room. There's a gym, common areas, and private bedrooms. But this place, just outside Halden, Norway, is a prison.

https://www.archdaily.com/154665/halden-prison-erik-moller-arkitekter-the-most-humane-prison-in-the-world
The Halden Prison in Halden, Norway by HLM arkitektur in collaboration with Erik Møller Arkitekter is considered to be the world's most humae prison and it will be the new home for Anders

https://time.com/archive/6597005/norway-builds-the-worlds-most-humane-prison/
This isn't cabaret night at Oslo's Royal Palace. It's a gala to inaugurate Halden Fengsel, Norway's newest prison. Ten years and 1.5 billion Norwegian kroner ($252 million) in the making

https://www.liberties.eu/en/stories/halden-the-world-s-most-humane-prison/11089
Prison director Are Høidal has been working in the Norwegian penitentiary system since 1983. Guards don't carry guns, however, and they didn't then. In case of need, they called the police. The director claims that even in the 60s, there was only one gun in each prison, kept in a safe place.

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-norway-humanity-prisons.html
Pennsylvania prison gets a Scandinavian-style makeover, and shows how the US penal system could become more humane Oct 10, 2022 Experiences in prison reduce perceptions of corrections officers

https://storytracker.solutionsjournalism.org/stories/how-norway-designed-a-more-humane-prison
Halden Prison in Norway has re-designed itself so that the look and feel of prison life isn't an added punishment to restricted freedom. Designers took into consideration the role campus design plays in promoting or disrupting guard-inmate relations and created a campus that promotes community rather than violence and isolation.

https://magazine.ucsf.edu/norways-humane-approach-prisons-can-work-here-too
The program has begun, slowly but surely, to improve the well-being of those who live and work in American prisons. Williams's quest started with a simple but radical idea. "I said, 'Surely there must be a place where public health is the centerpiece of criminal justice,'" she recalls. "We found that place in Norway.".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halden_Prison
The third-largest prison in Norway, it was established in 2010 with a focus on rehabilitation; its design simulates life outside the prison. ... Praised for its humane conditions, Halden Prison has received the Arnstein Arneberg Award for its interior design in 2010 and been the subject of a documentary, but has also received criticism for

https://www.gammabeyond.com/podcast/004-why-norway-has-the-worlds-most-humane-innovative-prison-system/
In this episode we explore some of the following topics: What makes Norway's prisons the most humane, and in my view, the most innovative prisons systems in the world, How Norway went from a nation of pillaging Vikings full of violence, murder, and revenge to a country where peace and forgiveness came to triumph, How Norwegian prisons differ

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/3/11/norways-prison-without-bars-its-a-trust-thing
Humane facilities. The Norwegian prison system as a whole rejects punishment, but Halden pushes the humane ethos to its limits, housing inmates in airy rooms with en-suite bathrooms in a

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2883512
Abstract. Kriminalomsorgen, Norway's corrections system, is described as the world's most humane prison system. Kriminalomsorgen focuses on rehabilitation and reintegration as the primary purposes of prison, and implements these policies through the Principle of Normality, which mandates that life in prison should be as similar to life

https://www.theurbanist.org/2019/09/01/sunday-video-how-norway-designed-a-more-humane-prison/
September 1, 2019. Prisons in America are usually designed for efficiency and to reinforce punishment by design, but their outcomes are often very poor for inmates and staff alike. Norway and Western European counties have flirted with designing prisons to be healthier and much more humane to prisoners, which Vox explains in this video.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-48885846
Twenty years ago, Norway moved away from a punitive "lock-up" approach and sharply cut reoffending rates. The BBC's Emma Jane Kirby went to see the system in action, and to meet prison officers

https://www.lifeinnorway.net/prisons/
The Norwegian prison system. Norway has a total capacity of around 4,000 cells. They are spread out among a relatively large number of facilities, of which almost two-thirds are high security and five are female-only. The largest prison is in Ullersmo with a capacity of 400 cells, while the smallest has just 13 cells.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2023/1206/Can-US-prisons-take-a-page-from-Norway-Five-questions
While the United States makes up less than 5% of the global population, its prison system holds approximately 20% of the world's total prison population. And even though it's been on a slight

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-70661-6_5
Nordic countries are considered to maintain more humane prison regimes because of their distinctive welfare state models. In Norway, for example, this model is rooted in strong cultures of equality, social solidarity and cohesion (Pratt & Eriksson, 2011).As a welfare state, the main goals of the Norwegian state is to give members of society the best possible conditions to maximise their own

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0258-3.pdf
Prison design and the need for reform ... Should we be looking for a more humane and imaginative approach to designing prisons that seeks to ... Wales, Scotland, Norway and Denmark, funded by the

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-14375-5_27
Abstract. Much has been written on punishment in Norway, in particular on imprisonment. This chapter seeks to take an expanded view of Norwegian penality and rehabilitation, providing the historical and contemporary context for mechanisms of rehabilitation and reintegration. The chapter also takes into account the rationale behind the

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/norways-prison-model-puts-britains-cramped-filthy-jails-to-shame-3098267?ico=editors_picks
How Norway's calm, cushy prisons put Britain's model to shame Halden prison is at the core of the world's best incarceration system when it comes to stopping people from committing crime

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-04/australia-broken-prison-system-norway-face-facts/103926876
Senior prison officials made a point of humiliating and excluding colleagues who showed any kindness to inmates. The chief correctional officer was heard to tell them, "don't f***ing help those