A minimum security prison on an island. One of the best known is the island of Bastøy. The island of 80 buildings, beaches, farmland and forest is notable for its total lack of fencing.

About an hour’s commute by water from Oslo, Norway is Bastoy Island, a minimum security prison 46 miles off the nation’s coast. The 2.6 square kilometer (1 square mile) island is home to 115 ...

Anders Breivik, who has admitted to the 2011 bombing and shooting massacre at a youth camp that left 77 people dead, arrived at Ila Prison, just outside Oslo, to a three-room cell that includes a ...

The inmates have private cells and dine with the guards. Norway spends three times as much as the U.S. per prisoner. Norwegians say it pays off, with less than half the U.S. recidivism rate.

The first thing you notice when you enter the grounds of Halden Prison in Norway's far southeast is the forest: Pine and birch trees surround buildings of… In Norway, A Prison Built On Second Chances ...

Bomb strikes Norway's capital 19 photos. STOCKHOLM-- Norwegian authorities have violated mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's human rights by holding him in solitary confinement in a three-cell ...

Norway spends three times as much as the U.S. per prisoner. Norwegians say it pays off, with less than half the U.S. recidivism rate. In Norway, A Prison Built On Second Chances | 90.5 WESA ...

Confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik may end up serving time in a newly built maximum-security prison that's considered among the world's most luxurious, according to The Telegraph. The ...