On a remote, pine tree-covered island off the coast of Norway, there's a prison like no other. Bastoy Prison, often referred to as the world's most luxurious prison, sits on an idyllic piece of ...

Chillon Castle is located on Lake Geneva, in Switzerland. It functioned as a prison during the Wars of Religion in the 16th century and later was turned into a weapons depot and outpost.

Halden isn't an anomaly either. Bastoy prison is also quite nice. In closed prisons we keep them locked up for some years and then let them back out, not having had any real responsibility for ...