>>399320It's not luxury for luxury sake. It's functional. It's about normalizing real life while still being in prison. Some bits a little unnecessary? Maybe, but overall not really.
>a music studio?Yes, absolutely. This place is for people who want to rehabilitate and being in the more regular prisons beforehand generally ruins your life; no contacts, little work experience, fucked up social hierarchy, and when you go from that to IRL, crime seems like a preferable solution to your lack of opportunity. By showing the potential benefits of life without crime and providing opportunities to learn those skills, they motivate the inmates to hopefully choose a better life.
There's some interesting videos from ex-US long-term inmates saying they struggled re-adjusting so much they almost/did reoffend to get back in a low-security prison with that routine and certainty, somewhere secure. Imagine going to prison in 2000, and coming out in 2010 without any experience with the changes that have happened since then.
>>399328Pretty much. It's fucked, and the secret is, it's not Norway's fault, and probably not yours either.