dead wrong.

[Ilyanna]

Out of curiousity: Have you ever been denied the freedom of leaving a place for, say, more than a week, MS?

Are you referring to my prison statement?

I did a stretch at the Federal Pen in St.Cloud (almost 4 years) and believe me, Norway's prison looked mighty comfy.

Yeah, that's what I meant. It's fascinating for me to see how different the ability to bear imprisonment is in people. I know a few otherwise pretty tough guys who completely broke down when doing a few weeks just because of the disempowerment (and our prisons are not that bad, from what I've been told), and others who did a few years like it was nothing. One guy in particular, he did 2 years in a Moroccan prison under the most severe conditions (including regular beatings), and when he came back, he just shrugged it off and built himself a new life.

I wasn't so much questioning your opinion but trying to find out the context it was given in - yeah, the pictures look like Norway's prisons are rather confortable. I have no problem with that, though, since my personal stance on prison time is along the lines of this:

"Both society and the individual simply have to put aside their desire for revenge, and stop focusing on prisons as places of punishment and pain," a Norwegian prison guard said in an interview with the Daily Mail.