Have you heard of prisons is the most comfortable place for prisoners? When mentioned about the prison, surely we will think in our mind that it is one place that can be the worst as hell. A prison is a place that is considered uncomfortable and filled with those who commit crimes.
Yet, not all prisons carry horror images. There are several countries in the world that change the perception of outsiders so that it makes the public want to visit these kinds of places.
Here we list the five most comfortable prisons in the world that can be mistaken for a holiday destination.
1. Justice Centre Leoben, Austria
Known for its five-star prison, the prison located in the town of Leoben, Austria, and has such architecture that looks like a business building complex. With a capacity that can accommodate 205 inmates, the prison is always full of books.
Completed in 2004, prison management believes all human beings born free and equivalent to dignity and rights, taken from the International Treaty on Civil and Political Rights that ‘everyone is deprived of its freedoms should be treated with humanity and by respect for the prestige of humanity that exists’.
2. Bastoy Prison, Norway
Located in Bastoy Island, the prison can accommodate up to 100 inmates. The prison is equipped with tennis courts, horse fields, fishing ponds, and luxurious sun loungers.
Dubbed as the minimal-security prison, each prisoner’s room space is equipped with a kitchen and a relaxing area for the comfort of prisoners.
3. HMP Addiewell Prison, Scotland
Located in Scotland, prisoners in this prison are prepared to mingle with the community after they leave. Here, although basically seems like a regular prison, its interior space decoration makes it less daunting than other prisons.
4. Aranjuez Prison, Spain
In this prison, prisoners are allowed to be accompanied by their parents for the first year. Even in prison is also provided space for prisoner children under three years of age – ready with swings, toys, and walls filled with Disney characters and patterns.
While for the child that over the age of three, they will be handed over either to the government or relatives of the prisoners before the prisoner is resettled to a regular prison cell.
This concept means that prisoners are also human beings who have a desire to have family and loved ones as well as conscious of the presence of both parents in three years of early childhood development.
5. Pondok Bambu Prison, Indonesia
In Malaysia’s neighboring country Indonesia, there is a prison similar to that of an apartment – equipped with a comfortable living room and a padded sofa for its occupants.
Sources: Atlasobscura.com, Forbes.com, SPS.Gov.Uk, India Times, Antara.news