This “Luxury Prison” has no walls, no barbed wire and no guards. The prison island of Bastoy in the fjord of Olso is more like a holiday camp than a prison.

When the weather is nice the inmates go for a walk by the sea or swim in it. They live in the same building but each one of them can decorate his room as he wishes. The director places his emphasis on trust and humanity. The prisoners are required to take responsibility. Norwegians are proud of their liberal prison system. And the statistics seem to back up the approach. Only 10 percent of inmates go on to reoffend.

Will say this one is interesting, and worth a look.

Watch highlights of this successful Long Beach program and see its impact on the local community. This is when people come together and work to solve issues in their communities. This is the start, we all need to be involved in the shift. This is nice to see successes.

This is some video detailing the circumstances around recent abortion doctor’s murder and about the level to which the anti-abortion movement has taken their discourse into a realm of terrorist groups. This is important viewing for those who believe in freedom of choice and freedom from hate. We need to stand against these extremists that threaten positive and equitable discourse. We are all for freedom of speech, but also need to realize how this is damaging to our society as a whole.

Mancow reaffirmed that the practice was indeed torture and said that his “psychological state” going into the experiment was that he was “laughing at it. I was willing to prove, and ready to prove, that this was a joke, and I was wrong. It was horrific. It was instantaneous. And look, I felt the effects for two days.”