Norway is renowned for its progressive views on the prison system. Unlike the U.S. prisons' concrete cells with hard communal toilets, Norway's prisons instead have been compared to "Holiday Camps". The prisons run a sort of "open campus" format, where they are not forced to stay in the building and they can do activities such as fishing in their spare time. Norway also has no death penalty or even life sentences in their penal system. Even Anders Breivik, the shooter who killed 77 people in Norway, only received the maximum sentence of 21 years. However, it should be noted that Norway has the lowest recidivism rate in Europe at just under 30%. This is much lower than the United State's rate as well, which is around 70%.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-prison-inmates-treated-like-people
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