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An inmate convicted of murder sunbathes outside the wooden cottage where he lives at Bastoy Prison, Norway's only island prison

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The former lighthouse, now used by prison workers as a holiday retreat. The inmates of Bastoy are no small-time villains on their first custodial sentence

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The prison library. With 120 inmates and 70 staff (35 of whom are guards) Bastoy is Norway's largest low-security prison but it is one of four others dotted around the country

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Outdoor phone booths, which are used by the prisoners

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A sunbed for inmates

1 posted on 05/25/2012 9:07:26 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
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2 posted on 05/25/2012 9:09:22 AM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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Makes me want to go to Norway and commit a crime


3 posted on 05/25/2012 9:10:42 AM PDT by AmonAmarth (Wherever you go...There you are)
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I wonder if Norway's newest mass murderer will find his way to this prison garden paradise?!?
4 posted on 05/25/2012 9:13:05 AM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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“This is exactly the type of dramatic turnabout — enraged killer to gentle-giant midwife. . . “

Here is a fundamental error.

They think because this inmate has happily and tearfully helped to deliver a calf, he is “healed.”

He is probably not healed. He strangled his girlfriend in a drunken rage. He crossed a line few men would cross. It is doubtful he would not, in similar circumstances, cross it again.

Men who have murdered their spouses or children will sit and cry because they miss them. It almost never matters. They are still people who will not control their rage.

Something will make them mad again. If nothing’s making them angry in prison, well, that’s nice, but something is going to anger them eventually.

It is possible to truly repent of murder. But that is an inward and unproveable work in the heart.


6 posted on 05/25/2012 10:31:42 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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