Inside the World's Most Humane Prison
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Recording Artists
There's also a recording studio with a professional mixing board. In-house music teachers who refer to the inmates as "pupils," never "prisoners" work with their charges on piano, guitar, bongos and more. Three members of Halden's security-guard chorus recently competed on Norway's version of American Idol. They hope to produce the prison's first musical starring inmates later this year. Photo taken 2010.
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