They have done bad things, Hoidal says ... it is in the U.S. And there are more than 2.2 million Americans in prison; Norway's prison population is one-tenth that, on a per capita basis.

Put simply, it is a bad time to be an inmate or a corrections ... I joined a group of Minnesota law students on a tour of Halden Prison in Norway. Advertised as "the Most Humane Prison in the ...

The prison population in Norway is vastly smaller than ours ... He knows there are “bad apples” in the profession and there are certainly too many instances of officers committing crimes ...

In Norway, a person-centered prison policy governs from Day One of a sentence. The premise? People in prison are fellow citizens who remain part of society even while incarcerated. Norwegian ...

Erik and Lyle Menendez lead a prison beautification project inspired by Norway's humane model. Norway’s approach emphasizes rehabilitation and low recidivism. The project aims to transform their ...

but they are not bad people. "That's a really important distinction," he says. They are "human beings, we treat them with respect." And that's the philosophy behind this prison, which opened in 2010.