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There were no coils of razor wire in sight, no lethal electric fences, no towers manned by snipers - nothing violent, threatening or dangerous.
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I walked up the quiet driveway to the entrance and presented myself to a camera at the main door. This was the outer wall of Halden Fengsel, which is often called the world’s most humane maximum-security prison. Smooth, featureless concrete rose on the horizon like the wall of a dam as I approached nearly four times as tall as a man, it snaked along the crests of the hills, its top curled toward me as if under pressure. Only the 25-foot-tall floodlights rising along the edges hinted that something other than grazing cows lay ahead. There were no signs warning against picking up hitchhikers, no visible fences. On the outskirts of town, across from a road parting dark pine forest, the turnoff to Norway’s newest prison was marked by a modest sign that read, simply, HALDEN FENGSEL. Cows clustered in wood-fenced pastures next to neat farmsteads in shades of rust and ocher.
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I drove down winding roads flanked in midsummer by rich green fields of young barley and dense yellow carpets of rapeseed plants in full flower. My destination was the town of Halden, which is on the border with Sweden, straddling a narrow fjord guarded by a 17th-century fortress. The highways were perfectly maintained and painted, the signs clear and informative and the speed-monitoring cameras primly intolerant. Like everything else in Norway, the two-hour drive southeast from Oslo seemed impossibly civilized.