Norse prison living in the heart of Seattle

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The author’s current residence. Compare to cells in Norway’s so-called luxury prisons: Halden and Bastoy Island. (Justin Ward)

The Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky famously wrote in The House of the Dead that the “degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” I wonder what an ex-con freshly released…