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Halden Prison: Vacation For Murderers?
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Halden Prison: Vacation For Murderers?

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Former UK Justice Minister Ann Widdecombe spends three days inside Halden Prison in Norway, a maximum security facility built a decade ago on the principle that inmates' human rights should shape the design. She tours a music studio where prisoners record rap tracks, walks an underground security tunnel, sits in on a college class, and visits a library, restaurant, and spiritual retreat, all housed within the same complex as murderers, rapists, and paedophiles. Staff and inmates explain the thinking behind the approach, and Widdecombe meets a former prisoner once described as the most dangerous man in Norway. Drawing on her own experience of the UK system, she questions guards and offenders directly, weighing whether the low reoffending rates Norway reports justify the cost and comfort on display. The film keeps returning to the same tension: is this genuine rehabilitation or an expensive experiment that lets serious offenders live better than free citizens outside? Widdecombe leaves impressed by parts of it and unconvinced by others.