However, doing time here is like being on a holiday.
It’s like the holiday version of Alcatraz.
But if the goal of prison is to change people, Bastoy seems to work.
Bastoy Prison encourages such dramatic change by handing responsibility back to inmates, often through a series of choices.
Inmates at Bastoy can make their own decisions regarding how to carry out their respective sentences.
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There are no wakeup calls in the morning.
Even a short stint at Bastoy seems to have a profound effect on the inmates.
And I have decided that I will change my way of living.
“This is not something that we can punish them into discovering, said Nilsen.
The boys home was taken over by the government in 1953 and closed permanently in 1970.
Today it is home to the most liberal prison in the world.
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Sources:Bastoy Fengsel/The Guardian/CNN/Pulitzer Center
