Skip to main content

12 of the most beautiful prisons around the world

England's Tower of London served as an operating prison from the year 1100 all the way up to 1952. It was rebuilt in the late 13th century but has stayed mostly the same ever since.



Cellular Jail, located on India's Andaman Nicobar Islands, was used in the early 20th century by the British mainly to exile political dissidents who were fighting for India's independence.



East Jutland State Prison opened a little over 10 years ago in Enner Mark, Denmark. Its clean, simple design masks high security, including infrared cameras, motion sensors, and fingerprint scanners.



In Overloon, Netherlands, the Juvenile Pavilion youth detention center uses an open design plan and borrows the natural-wood feel of the surrounding environment to keep inmates engaged with the outside world.



The Austrian prison Garsten Abbey used to function as a monastery up until 1851, at which point it began running as a prison. Its Baroque architecture makes it one of the more sophisticated-looking facilities in the world.



Scenic Bastoy Prison, located on a private island about 35 miles northwest of Halden, is another open prison that gives prisoners access to farming, fishing, skiing, tennis, and horseback riding.



Fremantle Prison, located in Western Australia, was decommissioned in 1991 after a 136-year run. It is now listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site.



Chillon Castle is located on Lake Geneva, in Switzerland. It functioned as a prison during the Wars of Religion in the 16th century and later was turned into a weapons depot and outpost.



If not for the heavy locking doors, Her Majesty's Prison (or HMP) Parc, in Wales, could pass for a public school. It offers numerous classes, a gymnasium with hot showers, pool tables, and ping-pong tables.



Villa Sbertoli, an Italian prison and mental hospital, was built in the 18th century and featured vaulted ceilings, interior balconies, and colorful frescoes.



Norway's Halden Prison lets inmates cook, play video games, shoot hoops, and sleep on plush beds. Rooms look more like college dorms than cells. The idea is to treat convicts like people, so they will re-enter society in a healthy mindset.



Austria's Justice Center was designed by Joseph Hohensinn to let in ample light. There are two inscriptions by the entrance, each affirming inmates' right to dignity and humanity.




More@ https://www.technapping.com

Source: Business Insider

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

He suffered from infancy but it took his parents 10 years to detect dyspraxia

He suffered from infancy but it took his parents 10 years to detect dyspraxia - a brain disorder that often made his limbs shiver making it impossible to eat noodles or go for long walks. And when his teacher asked them to send him to a "special" school after he failed a test in his 6th, 'Taare Zameen Par' had indeed arrived! By then, the boy had found a steady friend in his PC. At 8, he had mastered 'Age of Empires' and at 11, he was a gaming pro and dabbled with coding. At 15, his goal was to build something that would help parents of kids like him to detect their disorders very early. He researched and worked relentlessly for 3 years. In 2015, the 18-year-old launched 'My Child' - a free Android app. It takes just 45 seconds to know if a child is suffering from a brain, nerve, speech or physical disorder. It can correctly trace and track disorders even in babies of 11-24 months. The app's been downloaded 12000 times by users in 140 countries....

Road Trip From Mumbai To London!

A road trip from Mumbai to London will be a dream for many. While you keep making and breaking your travel plans, this couple from Mumbai let go of their inhibitions and set out for the challenging road trip.  Meet Baldawa family from Mumbai. FACEBOOK/BADRI BALDWA On March 23 this year , 73-year-old Badri Baldawa embarked on the road trip with his 64-year-old wife and 10-year-old granddaughter in their BMW X5, across 72 days, crossing 19 countries and covering 22,200 km, before reaching London And age for them, is just a number. Mr. Baldawa, steel exporter and chartered accountant by profession, hails from Karnataka and now lives in Mumbai with his family. Embarking on spontaneous adventure trips seems like a norm with the Baldawas. Baldawa had hiked up to one of the base camps of Mount Everest, has driven from Mumbai to Badrinath, has travelled to Antarctica and has drive across Iceland in 2015 along with his 10-year-old granddaughter Nishi, reports  The Hindu .  T...

If the most important servers of Google are bombed, will it destroy its empire? [A Quora Post]

A big company like Google isn't made up of servers. Google runs because of image. Google has become the worlds biggest search engine because of the image of they have formed. Let's say you bombed Google’s servers (pictured). Google is a 500 billion dollar company. In a matter of days, Google would be up and running using another company's servers. In weeks, Google would have restored their own servers. Secondly, (relating to image), if Google went down for a day or two, people would not automatically switch to another search engine. To billions of people, Google has become the default. Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others barely exist for billions of people worldwide. In the end, losing Google for a short while would be a hard blow but Google's image would save the company once it was up and running again. More@ https://www.technapping.com Source : Quora