I Deliberately Sent Myself to Prison in Iceland – They Didn’t Even Lock the Cell Door

[DGUtley]

I Deliberately Sent Myself to Prison in Iceland – They Didn’t Even Lock the Cell Door.

Iceland is a small country tucked away on the edge of Europe. It has a population of only about 340,000 people. Iceland’s prisons are small too. There are only five, altogether housing fewer than 200 prisoners. Of these five, two are open prisons. I had visited them both before, and they left me intrigued. I wanted to get to know them better. When I asked the prison authorities in Iceland if I could spend a week in each of the two open prisons they were surprisingly receptive. I got the impression that they quite liked the idea: a foreign academic who wanted to get under the skin of these places by assuming the role of a prisoner. They promised to keep a room free for me. I was grateful and excited. I was going to experience both prisons from the inside. While I knew that they were calm and safe, they do house people convicted of some serious violent or sexual offences. How do prisons without walls or fences even work?


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[carolina73]

Sometimes things are not as bad as they sound.

When I lived in Lexington KY, I wanted to be a horse.
The horses have some great accommodations.
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[Lummy]

All they need is a good heater. Nobody will run off.

[bulletbob]

All they need is a good heater. Nobody will run off.

lol its a frozen Island full of volcano and its cold there no where to run to lol

[Cotton1]

I Deliberately Sent Myself to Prison in Iceland – They Didn’t Even Lock the Cell Door.

Iceland is a small country tucked away on the edge of Europe. It has a population of only about 340,000 people. Iceland’s prisons are small too. There are only five, altogether housing fewer than 200 prisoners. Of these five, two are open prisons. I had visited them both before, and they left me intrigued. I wanted to get to know them better. When I asked the prison authorities in Iceland if I could spend a week in each of the two open prisons they were surprisingly receptive. I got the impression that they quite liked the idea: a foreign academic who wanted to get under the skin of these places by assuming the role of a prisoner. They promised to keep a room free for me. I was grateful and excited. I was going to experience both prisons from the inside. While I knew that they were calm and safe, they do house people convicted of some serious violent or sexual offences. How do prisons without walls or fences even work?


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Interesting. To me its not so much they dont try to escape its the fact they exist together without the fighting, stealing and general chaos. I wonder why?

[carolina73]

lol its a frozen Island full of volcano and its cold there no where to run to lol

Plus it is a Socialists dream. Free Free Free. Plus , with global warming those ice caps are all melting and it feels like Hawaii now. AOC told me.

[Adelaide]

It's actually not very cold there, from someone who has been in summer and winter. Colder and more arctic conditions in parts of Russia - seen their prisons?
@Peter1469

[Peter1469]

It's actually not very cold there, from someone who has been in summer and winter. Colder and more arctic conditions in parts of Russia - seen their prisons?
@Peter1469

I have been there twice but winter both times.