Share this photo [3/7] <p>Two men sit inside the chapel at Halden prison in the far southeast of Norway in this picture taken in 2010, released on July 27, 2011. REUTERS/Trond A. Isaksen </p> ...

The prison in Halden, Norway, shown here in April 2010, is surrounded by a 25-foot-high concrete wall and little else to suggest it's a maximum-security facility.

When it opens on April 1, Halden Prison will hold 252 inmates, making it the second-largest prison in Norway. It’s a gorgeous, ultra-modern structure right near the Swedish border, comprised of ...

Two men sit inside the chapel at Halden prison in far southeast Norway in this picture taken in 2010. Prisoners here spend 12 hours a day in their cells, compared to many U.S. prisons where ...

The prison in Halden, Norway, shown here in April 2010, is surrounded by a 25-foot-high concrete wall and little else to suggest it's a maximum-security facility.

Oct 29, 2014, 3:30 PM PT Halden Prison's recording studio YouTube/John Stark Norway's prison system is known as one of the most humane in the entire world. It may also be one of the most radical.

The prison in Halden, Norway, shown here in April 2010, is surrounded by a 25-foot-high concrete wall and little else to suggest it's a maximum-security facility. The emphasis is on treating the ...

The prison population in Norway is vastly smaller than ours — Halden holds about 250 men, fewer than your average county jail — but there are similarities with the U.S., starting with racial ...

<p>A road leading to Halden prison in the far southeast of Norway is seen in this April 9, 2010 file handout picture released to Reuters on July 26, 2011. Halden jail could house Norwegian gunman ...

Halden doesn’t shy away from bright, cheerful colors, and actually spent about $1 million to hire a graffiti artist named Dolk (sort of their version of Banksy) to paint beautiful murals all ...

They greet the prison governor by his first name. The atmosphere at Halden is casual, but the doors are locked and cameras watch every movement. Past a grove of birch trees, we approach a series of ...

Italian photographer Gughi Fassino became obsessed with the contemporary architecture and design of the Halden prison in Norway, and he set out to do a photo story about it. He discovered that the ...