Thursday, April 19, 2012

Bastøy Island Prison



Working on a paper on retributivism and the moral education account of punishment I came across some information about Bastøy prison in Norway. The video above details the prison, and nicely illustrates how the moral education approach to punishment contravenes retributivist sensibilities but leads to desirable societal outcomes (i.e. lower rates of re-offending).

Cheers,
Colin