Nilsen has revolutionary thoughts about how prisons should be run. They believe in their work and know the difference they are making." They are like social workers as well as prison guards. "It is not just because Bastoy is a nice place, a pretty island to serve prison time, that people change," Arne Kvernvik Nilsen, who was in charge of Bastoy Prison for the five years leading up to 2013, told the Guardian. All the guards have received three years' training (compared to perhaps six months in the US), and resemble social workers more than prison officers.
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In their free time, inmates have the opportunity to visit the church, school, or library, and engage in leisure activities such as horse riding, fishing, and tennis. Only five employees remain on the island overnight.
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The prison is on an island one square mile in size and hosts 115 inmates with a staff of 69 prison employees. Every inmate is offered high-quality education and training programs to increase their skills. The inmates also earn roughly eight dollars a day on a variety of jobs that include growing food, looking after horses, repairing bicycles, doing woodwork, and maintaining Bastoy Island's facilities. A meal a day is provided for them any other food must be bought from the local supermarket and prepared by the prisoners themselves, who receive an allowance of $90 a month. Each man has his own room and shares the kitchen and other facilities with the other inmates.
It has been called "the Norwegian prison that works" as well as "the world's nicest prison," and it's not hard to see why.Īt Bastoy Prison, inmates live communally in comfortable homes.
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