This is one of the four new
visitors’ rooms.
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Our new Visitors Centre has already been in use for several months, and was officially opened by Norway’s Minister of Justice Knut Storberget on 5. September 2011. It is Prison Director Stig Storvik’s clear intention that it should not only be Norway’s, but perhaps the world's best prison visiting centre for children.
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(Published 09.09.11)
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Prison Shop
(In norwegian)
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Norway’s Minister of Justice,
Knut Storberget discusses
his
revised budget with one
of the inmates. |
Norway’s Minister of Justice, Knut Storberget, chose to present his Revised National Budget from the steps of Oslo Prison’s A Wing* (*known otherwise by locals, from popular Norwegian films, as the Olsen Gang Entrance). Like the fictive film gang, Knut Storberget also has a plan!
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(Published 19.05.11) |
This model arrived at the Ski
Museum, Holmenkollen,
Oslo almost before the
lacquer was dry! |
-Could you make a kind of rack to hang the 1000 home-knitted sleeves on? This was the question Trond Nilsen, at the Blacksmith’s Workshop of Oslo Prison, got just one week away from the start of the World Ski Championship in Oslo, Norway. So with eagerly rolled up cuffs himself, experienced as he is, he jumped at the challenge.
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(Published 25.02.11) |
Morthen Sørlie, chaplain at
Oslo Prison. |
CHRISTMAS BEHIND PRISON WALLS
In the midst of our busy city district there is a fortress surrounded by walls. Inside the walls there is a world the fewest of us have very much knowledge of. Oslo Prison is Norway’s largest prison and consists of three departments, A, B and C. Most of the inmates are in remand custody, and most of them are foreign citizens. We have met Morthen Sørlie, prison chaplain, who is relatively new to the job. He is about to experience his first Christmas behind the prison walls. The world of the prison is an entirely new experience for him. He serves Dept. B, previously known popularly as ’Bayern’, since once there was a brewery here!
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(Published 23.12.10) |
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Together with the popular Norwegian singer Henning Kvitnes and a country-rock band of top musicians from the US, Sweden and Norway, inmates from Oslo Prison formed the choir for a new Christmas record. The record has already received an overwhelming reception, achieving the highest score of all Christmas records – 5 out of six points from eleven of the country’s largest newspapers!
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(Published 13.12.10) |
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In the state budget for 2011 announced this week, the Norwegian government has recommended the allocation of funds to build a new Activity Centre at Oslo Prison. NOK 10 million has also been ear-marked for complete refurbishment of the current visiting facilities in Dept. B.
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(Published 06.10.10) |
Deputy Justice Minister in
Romania, Alina Mihaela Bica.
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Norway’s Minister of Justice, Knut Storberget and Deputy Minister Alina Mihaela Bica have signed an agreement permitting transfer between Norway and Romania of convicted persons serving sentences. A visit to Oslo Prison took place in this connection, and included a short tour of the prison facilities. The agreement was not surprisingly well received by most interested parties, although the two romanian inmates we met in Dept. A-2 were not exactly delighted when confronted with the news.
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(Published 23.09.10) |
Front page of the TIME number
published
12.07.2010, with the
article about the Norwegian
Correctional Services. |
During this summer, a lengthy article about the Norwegian Correctional Services was published in "TIME" magazine. Although TIME's journalist visited Bastøy Prison, Halden Prison and Sandaker Halfway House, the article also includes a wider account of Norway's methods for the treatment of criminal persons.
As always, it is interesting to read about our work through the eyes of foreigners, but this article makes me feel proud to be a part of the Norwegian Correctional Services.
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 Minister of Culture Anniken
Huitfeldt looking tough
together with "Skio", one of
the rappers who performed
for her. |
It was very exciting to get a visit from the Minister of Culture in person, according to "Skio" one of the inmates wh
o performed with a self-made rap during the informal arrangement. The prison visit came about as a result of an initiative from the Minister of Culture Anniken Huitfeldt herself.
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(Published 06.07.10) |
Minister of Justice, Knut
Storberget, yesterday
presented the revised
National Budget at Oslo
Prison. |
Oslo Correctional Services has recently been allocated a total of NOK 40 million in Norway’s revised national budget. A part of these additional funds will be used to establish a new class at the Prison Officers’ Training Academy, the results of which will be particularly noticeable for Oslo Prison since the new class will be located here at Oslo Prison. Naturally, we are very pleased for this decision and the opportunity it provides to strengthen our manpower situation.
Read the press release from the Ministry of Justice and the Police here.
(Published 12.05.10) |
Jahn Otto Johansen |
Almost 100 persons met up in the staff canteen to hear a lecture on gypsies given by the famous Norwegian personality Jahn Otto Johansen. Whether it was hunger for knowledge or the senior Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s (NRK) legendary status that drew the crowd remains unknown, but Jahn Otto delivered, that’s for sure!
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(Published 18.02.10) |
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