Inmates are given a comfortable bed, desk with reading lamp, private bathroom and a share in communal kitchens where prisoners can make their own food. Pictured: The main building at night
World's most humane maximum security prison where each inmate gets a fridge, 22-inch TV, long window, wardrobe and access to spacious communal room
Some people have refused to believe that this is a prison and not an upmarket learning institution, what with its spacious bedrooms, grass lawns and modern kitchens.
Just opened Storstrøm Prison - near the town of Gundslev in Denmark - was created to feel like a university campus, with a minimalist Scandinavian look modelled on a traditional Danish village.
At a cost of over £100million, it took five years to build. Storstrøm can hold 250 prisoners in its 40 square foot cells - each of which comes with a fridge, 22-inch TV, large window and wardrobe.
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Hear Mads Mandrup, a designer at CF Møller Architects:
''The jail was created to lower crime levels - something traditional, less humanistic prisons fail to do.
We truly believe, and evidently the Statistics Support us in this, that a hard and less-stimulating Environment Creates more re-offenders.''
The cells definitely do not look like the bare, cramped and intimidating rooms usually associated with prisons.
There are also beautifully decorated, colourful common rooms for the criminals to socialise.
The offenders have jobs at workshops on the site, alongside a church, grocery shop, library and playground for visiting families.
During their downtime, the prisoners can wander about the campus - the size of 18 football fields - and enjoy study sessions, exercise, art classes or prayer time.
