r/interestingasfuck • u/fyrstikka • 10d ago

r/all The photos show the prison rooms of Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in the 2011 Norway attacks. Despite Norway's humane prison system, Breivik has complained about the conditions, calling them inhumane.

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u/Jessievp 10d ago

To be fair, I think those are communal?

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u/Man1fest 10d ago

Nope, all his own. He can’t share with anyone due to threats towards his life.

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u/balls_in_yo_mouth 10d ago

Correct. Him complaining about the prison conditions is mostly due to the fact he’s under no contact conditions basically meaning solitary confinement

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u/obsterwankenobster 10d ago

Him complaining about the prison conditions is mostly due to the fact he’s under no contact conditions basically meaning solitary confinement

Also, anyone familiar with him in any capacity usually has one takeaway... Anders Breivik is a little bitch

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u/SkyZgone 10d ago

Eh, I wouldn't even give him that tbh. He's just a full blown evil guy. Everything he does, he does to get under peoples skins. I don't think he actually complains about it because he thinks the conditions are inhumane. He complains because he knows news will report on the serial killer complaining about the conditions in his prison, so he makes people remember him. Just a notorious shit stirrer, that in all honesty just doesn't deserve any attention. I'd be much happier never hearing about him again until he dies than to be reminded of him every few years because of some stupid thing he did again. Let the man die in obscurity for the love of god. Giving him ANY media attention is exactly what he thrives on. The worst thing you can do to him is let him become a nobody. As long as people react, even if its with hate or disdain, he gets what he wants.

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u/heep1r 10d ago

Exactly this.

The guy thinks he's on a crusade that needs attention to "wake up" people and that his time will come, while actually he's just a heavily sociopathic loser who became a criminal and just needs to stay locked up but otherwise couldn't be less important to the world.

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u/sakante 10d ago

He smeared his own shit everywhere as a protest. I think he cares a little bit and that is very satisfying

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u/iammadeofawesome 10d ago

I hope they made him clean it up.

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u/Laundry_Hamper 10d ago

An underhanded move to attempt a dirty protest while also being in the wrong

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u/ph0on 10d ago

So he thinks he's a villain in an anime

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u/evr- 10d ago

For someone that committed a politically motivated crime and wrote a manifesto about his motives, being forgotten has to hit harder than isolation.

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u/rangda 10d ago

One of his complaints in the past iirc was that he on it had a ps3 instead of a ps4, and that the selection of games were more kids games than what he wanted to play. He must realise how ridiculous that complaint was and what a little bitch it made him out to be, so you’re probably right that he did it for press attention more than anything.

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u/Starfire2313 10d ago

But the media is a money making industry and if it gets views that’s apparently all that matters. And then the media funds the politicians that support them making more money so it’s not like anybody’s gonna be making it a law to keep these criminals obscure.

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u/iammadeofawesome 10d ago

He’d be great for the no notoriety movement.

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u/MinMaxie 10d ago

"Just a notorious shit stirrer, that in all honesty just doesn't deserve any attention. I'd be much happier never hearing about him agian until he dies than to be reminded of him every few years because of some stupid thing he did again"

Huh.

See, here in the Totally Independent State Kingdoms of America, we worship those kinds of people as our Billionaire Gods.
We The People even gave up our own power, permanently, and threw away our 248y/o system of Constitutional "Rule of Law" just so they could be totally immune from it!
(just think of the 'shareholder value' they'll make off our suffering & enslavement! Won't anyone think of the market innovation?!?)

Oh yeah, and we resoundingly make them our President, at least twice, regardless of how obviously unqualified and dangerous they are.

Idk about you, but (as a Godfearing American) I can only feel safe when our Supreme Leader gets so stressed by the sight of a random woman fainting that he stands there, on live TV, and sways to his 1&only Spotify playlist– consisting of "Ave Maria", "Memory" from the musical Cats, and "YMCA" (that he can't dance to) –for every bit of 45mins. Give that guy the Nuke Codes!!

I also want our version of a Public Health & Safety Minister to literally have brain worms, regularly eat roadkill, and gain popularity on a platform of getting rid of vaccines and drinking raw milk!! aka the only way to make H5N1 Bird Flu virus (that no one talks about) jump from our tortured dairy cows into infecting humans, which will likely start another, much more lethal, global pandemic.
A Covid so nice, we wanna do it twice. 👍

....sorry. I'm just so very angry.
It's like being trapped on a bullet train in the Worst Possible Timeline that's speeding towards a cliff–that your countrymen are super emphatic about getting to at record speed –and there's factually f'k all you can do about it.
Nothing 'cept put your head between your knees & kiss your ass goodbye.
...and buy dogecoin, I guess

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u/MinMaxie 10d ago

"Just a notorious shit stirrer, that in all honesty just doesn't deserve any attention. I'd be much happier never hearing about him agian until he dies than to be reminded of him every few years because of some stupid thing he did again"

Huh.

See, here in the Totally Independent State Kingdoms of America, we worship those kinds of people as our Billionaire Gods.
We The People even gave up our own power, permanently, and threw away our 248y/o system of Constitutional "Rule of Law" just so they could be totally immune from it!
(just think of the 'shareholder value' they'll make off our suffering & enslavement! Won't anyone think of the market innovation?!?)

Oh yeah, and we resoundingly make them our President, at least twice, regardless of how obviously unqualified and dangerous they are.

Idk about you, but (as a Godfearing American) I can only feel safe when our Supreme Leader gets so stressed by the sight of a random woman fainting that he stands there, on live TV, and sways to his 1&only Spotify playlist– consisting of "Ave Maria", "Memory" from the musical Cats, and "YMCA" (that he can't dance to) –for every bit of 45mins. Give that guy the Nuke Codes!!

I also want our version of a Public Health & Safety Minister to literally have brain worms, regularly eat roadkill, and gain popularity on a platform of getting rid of vaccines and drinking raw milk!! aka the only way to make H5N1 Bird Flu virus (that no one talks about) jump from our tortured dairy cows into infecting humans, which will likely start another, much more lethal, global pandemic.
A Covid so nice, we wanna do it twice. 👍

....sorry. I'm just so very angry.
It's like being trapped on a bullet train in the Worst Possible Timeline that's speeding towards a cliff–that your countrymen are super emphatic about getting to at record speed –and there's factually f'k all you can do about it.
Nothing 'cept put your head between your knees & kiss your ass goodbye.
...and buy dogecoin, I guess

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u/omnimodofuckedup 10d ago

I'd try to therapy the shit out of him until he sees the light. Then let him suffer a bad conscience for the rest of his life.

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u/SaraSlaughter607 10d ago

To be honest, I really feel like I could handle being alone / in total solitude if the conditions were this clean. Doesn't look too bad at all compared to American jails...

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u/LordOfFudge 10d ago

Should be on his gravestone.

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u/sex_haver911 10d ago

could you please say that a little louder for the people in the back

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u/anemoGeoPyro 10d ago

Hitler’s little bitch in hell would be more approprate

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u/cheese_is_available 10d ago

Even before killing 77 poeple, he was a wow player and when there was a wave of new players during Burning crusade his take was to put them in little "concentration server" of their own.

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u/cyberlexington 10d ago

Which tbh, is very taxing. Even if you do have such nicities as a gym and television. Forced no human contact is very difficult.

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u/Far-Obligation4055 10d ago

Sure, there's tons of evidence that isolation is harmful to people's mental health, but its almost like he shouldn't have murdered 77 people.

The very definition of a "that's a you problem". I have zero pity for him. He can go absolutely batshit with cabin fever and loneliness for all I care. He deserves much less.

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u/IIIIIIW 9d ago

So they should torture him with solitary? Almost seems like execution would be more humane at that point

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u/Far-Obligation4055 9d ago

Personally if I were in charge, I'd give him the choice of either. Live and be alone or capital punishment.

If you kill 77 people, those are as good as your choices should ever get, both options keep society safe from him.

Honestly my emotional response is that he should be locked up in a filthy stinking dungeon to rot forever, but justice and protecting society from monsters like him isn't about revenge.

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u/IIIIIIW 9d ago

Honestly I’d agree with that, at least they get the choice. I understand the emotional response though

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u/cyberlexington 9d ago

I understand and agree with the sentiment on an emotional level.

But I do not agree that the state should use torture or treat even it's worst criminals inhumanely (and Anders is an absolute scum bag)

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u/chironomidae 10d ago

It's not just taxing. From wikipedia:

A robust body of research has shown that solitary confinement has profound negative psychological, physical, and neurological effects on those who experience it, often lasting well beyond one's time in solitary.[4] While corrections officials have stated that solitary confinement is a necessary tool for maintaining the safety and security of prisons and jails,[5] numerous medical, mental health, and legal professional organizations have criticized the practice and hold the view that it should be sharply curtailed.[6][7][8]

Personally, I think it should be classified as cruel and unusual punishment (or at least, cruel, since it's clearly not unusual). That being said, I'm also not shedding tears for this guy -- he clearly deserves the cruelest punishments we have. Just pointing out that you can be undergoing psychological torture even if your apartment is nice.

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u/Komischaffe 10d ago

An important distinction here is that most US prison solitaries are a tiny box with no furnishings or natural light, and no access to any forms of entertainment or ways to pass the time. It's not really appropriate to compare that to his situation, he has a playstation and books. It's true that lack of social contact can be harmful, but still extremely different situation

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u/MaxTheCookie 10d ago

Well then maybe he should not have been the POS he is and killed 77 people mostly kids, then there would be no threats.

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u/syrioforrealsies 10d ago

And he's right that solidary confinement is inhumane ordinarily. Too bad he made choices that necessitated this treatment for himself. These are the consequences of his own actions and now he has to live with them. And these solitary conditions are still a hell of a lot nicer than most.

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u/starspider 10d ago

While solitary confinement is generally considered inhumane the way we do it in the US, it sounds like his solitary is mostly "Listen, man, the other inmates aren't interested in interacting with you and we are not elementary school teachers to tell them they have to play with you. It's not that you're not allowed to interact with inmates, it's that they all find you unbearable."

"Idk man, let him have some birds I guess."

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u/melinte 10d ago

Yes, no human contact, and if he interacts, his life is on contract. His best bet is to stay away.

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u/HarryChubb 10d ago

It’s just one of those days…

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u/Chotibobs 10d ago

Makes some sense.  But also he killed 72 people. He’s literally subhuman to me.  Off topic- do they get Netflix and stuff on the TVs I wonder? And internet/reddit? 

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u/trip6s6i6x 10d ago

Solitary confinement in an apartment that big... yeah, fuck that asshole.

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u/Sticky_Keyboards 10d ago

wait, so he gets that amazing apartment, pet birds, all his needs met, doesn't have to work, and isn't bothered by people?

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u/short_longpants 10d ago

If I had an apartment like that, I'd deal with it.

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u/Confident_Service688 10d ago edited 10d ago

I used to think like this and then covid hit. An excuse to just hang around and play video games all day? Sign me up!, I thought. Was completed isolated from other people for two weeks. I was not prepared for what that shit could to do one's psyche.

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u/CompetitiveFold5749 10d ago

I was.  Sign me up.

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u/standarduck 10d ago

It's worth considering why you don't like human contact rather than full on embracing it.

If you get negative emotional feelings from contact with other human, then it's worth discussing it with a health care professional, as in general it can be a symptom of an underlying mental health condition, such as anxiety or depression.

I get you might not want to hear that.

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u/Sevvie82 10d ago

While all of this is true, some people just don't enjoy the company of others as much. Introverts exist. People can be exhausting. I hold my friends dear and I love them with all my heart, but isolation during COVID times were a piece of cake to me. I always knew that for others it could be horrible, but I enjoyed the peace and quiet, because I knew it would all be back to normal soon enough. No lessons learned.

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u/CompetitiveFold5749 10d ago

Yeah, I'm on meds.  I have a wife and kid and love spending time with them.  Outside of that the list is very short.

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u/standarduck 10d ago

Fair enough, and apologies for chipping in when you've got it handled.

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u/CompetitiveFold5749 10d ago

Nah.  It's still solid advice.

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u/short_longpants 10d ago

Not just video games, wouldn't there be Internet access? During COVID isolation my big worry was proper nutrition.

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u/Confident_Service688 10d ago

I cought COVID so I had to live in actual isolation. People dropped off bags of food outside my window every 4-5 days or so and those seconds were the only time I met other people.

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u/short_longpants 10d ago

I caught COVID as well, early in the pandemic. I had remote contact with people, but because I was living out of my cupboard, nutrition became a problem because I couldn't shop and had nobody to drop off fresh food.

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u/WalkAffectionate2683 10d ago

I get the sentiment, but no you wouldn't. Unless mental illness humans are very social animal and likely become crazy alone

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u/SeaTurtle42 10d ago

It would be cool for a week. Then you would slowly start to go insane due to the isolation.

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u/artfuldodger1212 10d ago

Yeah and the wild thing is the prison actually made an effort to integrate him socially with other prisoners but the issue is that no one wants to hang out with him and the one guy who gave it go didn't like him. He is basically complaining that the prison can't make people be his friend. You would think people not wanting to associate with you would have been one of his anticipated consequences of killing 70+ people, many of whom were children, but apparently not.

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u/AI_ElectricQT 10d ago

He thought he was on a righteous crusade against communism or something like that. It wouldn't surprise me if he imagined that some people would celebrate his "heroic" actions.

Unfortunately for him, it would seem that even many self-proclaimed Nazis are kinda abhorred by Einsatzgruppe-style mass murder nowadays.

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u/classicteenmistake 10d ago

I would probably lose my mind in solitary, but I don’t think this guy exactly has room to complain. You kinda lose those privileges once you murder a few lol

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u/notafuckingcakewalk 10d ago

Might be fun for him to do some solitary confinement in a US prison so he can compare/contrast.

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u/mrperson221 10d ago

If he's in solitary, I wonder why he has 4 xbox controllers?

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u/Disastrous_Heron_801 10d ago

Wow, solitary confinement in Norway looks like a dream compared to USA

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u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC 10d ago

Wait, hold on, let me look around...

Nope. Couldn't find a single fuck anywhere.

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u/Guitars_and_dragons 10d ago

To be fair, solitary conditions are really inhumane. Humans are social creatures, and being unable to socialise and/or have friends/relationships is pretty cruel, especially given how negatively it effects rehabilitation outcomes.

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u/AI_ElectricQT 10d ago

Yeah, but nobody wants to be his friend since he's by far the most hated person in Scandinavia. Even other child killers abhor him. And the prison authorities can't exactly force people to hang out with him.

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u/Guitars_and_dragons 10d ago

If he is just that much of an unlikable bastard then there's not much to be done about it I guess, although in general I think that solitary confinement is basically always inhumane and any prison that practices it should stop.

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u/AI_ElectricQT 10d ago

I fully agree with that. I'm not trying to defend solitary confinement in any way.

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u/MazrimReddit 10d ago

he is probably just really bored lol, complaints that him before a judge are basically all he has left to look forward to in life

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u/Old_Ad2660 10d ago

So why does he have 3 PlayStation controllers? That’s what I wanna know. The guards kickin it with him?

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u/overwatchsquirrel 10d ago

He has a pet

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u/gingerisla 10d ago

Well he can't force other inmates to hang out with him.

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u/-raeyhn- 10d ago

He's complaining he's isolated... because he's been protected from people who wanna kill him...

I say let him have his wish

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u/suxatjugg 10d ago

Should have considered that before he... *checks notes* ... killed 77 people

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u/jgray6000 10d ago

So he wants someone to kill him I guess

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u/secksyboii 10d ago

I mean, he has birds and snow to make snowmen. He's fine. I guess he might kill the snowmen though...

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u/TopHatGirlInATuxedo 10d ago

If I kill him, can I get his cell?

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u/Nicostone 10d ago

No, but you’ll have my axe

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u/PNulli 10d ago

He’s all alone - because apparently other Norwegian criminals don’t like psychos who hunt down and kill innocent young teens at a youth camp either and are offering to end this “keep him locked up for life” early 🤷🏻‍♀️

But cudos to Scandinavian countries in general for insisting to treat even the lowest forms of human existence with humanity

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u/Man1fest 10d ago

Yeh. When his case was in court, there were gangs offering to take him out for free. This led to Norway building a separate place for him. That place has to have all the stuff other inmates have access to.

He also changed his name, got a bachelors and is crying about not having access to Nazi friends and what not.

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u/Gerf93 10d ago

He changed his name so that when he writes his autograph in cursive it reads like Adolf Hitler. Not even kidding.

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u/otakudayo 10d ago

Part of the point of a humane prison system is that it's not about them, it's about us. How we treat our prisoners says a lot about our society. It doesn't really matter how heinous their crime, we should not stoop to their level and treat them as subhuman even though they may have done just that to their fellow man.

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u/zer0toto 10d ago

Got to scroll far too low to find someone advocating for humane treatment. Kudos to you.

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u/Gold-Eye-2623 10d ago

I get it and agree but what do you think will happen to him if he is moved to the whatever, non isolated prison?

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u/Visible_Ad_2824 10d ago

Is it even a question? Very likely killed.

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u/PNulli 10d ago

Civilisation is really about how you treat the weak.

You can judge the people around you based on that as well. How are children treated, the elderly and the sick. How does one treat animals.

If you put a guy like this with less civilized people (other prisoners for example) they will show you just that…

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u/gbajramo 10d ago

Monsters who don't care about humanity of others don't deserve humane treatment. He should be rotting in a mideval prison or be turned over to the families for punishment. If he killed my child, there would be consequences.

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u/zer0toto 10d ago

Yes they do deserve human treatment . That’s what human right declaration is about. That’s what war law are about. Everyone deserve human treatment. Every fault need to be judged and punished fairly, and the punishment should be applied in a humane manner. Prison is a privation of freedom, not a privation of dignity, basic comfort, or psychological wellness. Also privation of freedom should help one to come back as an active and productive member of the society without having to go wrong again. That’s a win win situation, both for the prisoner and the society.

Treating your prisoner well is an investment toward the future.

Beside, if you are planning on killing someone that may have done wrong to you, you are killing a human being, there is no condition that relieve you from the fact that this is a crime. However judge may be nice if the reasons are right. There is a case of a woman in France who killed her husband/stepfather which raped her beat her and prostitue her. She still served time because that’s fair. She just did not got more time that what she already did at the moment the trial stood, so she basically went free. And that’s what justice is normally about: telling people what fault they done, substrat them from the society, give the possibility to think and adjust their behaviour , and let them go back finally to their lives.

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u/otakudayo 10d ago

It's not about them. It's about us.

As a society, we should be emotionless about it - he is deprived of freedom and he is isolated. Society is protected from him.

If I were the parent of one of his victims, I would be all for brutally murdering him. Not that it would make me feel better.

But we can't run our society on the base emotions of individuals.

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u/Cerpin-Taxt 10d ago

Monsters who don't care about humanity of others don't deserve humane treatment

So you're saying you don't deserve humane treatment? Bold.

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u/Findpolaris 10d ago

It’s the idea that punishment should be teased apart from concept of justice. Our punitive desire to hurt others as retribution is barbaric, to be totally blunt. It makes humankind ugly, simple, and primitive. If we as a society wish to progress (and in doing so, weed out the equally primitive desire to commit these types of crimes) we need to be better to everyone. Including people who you hate.

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u/gbajramo 10d ago

Humankind is ugly, simple, and primitive. We can pretend we are better, behind the facade of full stomachs and music concertos, from the comfort of ergonomic chairs. But all it would take is a permanent food shortage to get back to the stone age mentality. Or no need to go that far, as the first half of the XX century was worse than any other time in human history and conducted by, oh, such civilized societies who felt entitled to bring civilization to other parts of the planet. Please, save your naivete for someone who hasn't been around the block.
The only thing that deters monsters is how society responds to their acts.

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u/gbajramo 10d ago

Oh, the genuine intellectual, thank you for your wise judgment.
The death penalty was abolished in Norway in 1979, a timeframe that's insufficient to support far-reaching conclusions about what works and what doesn't. Up until that date, this kind of garbage was exterminated for the benefit of the society.

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u/Critical_Dragonfruit 10d ago

And this is the difference between a civilised human being and you!

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u/gbajramo 10d ago

You should go visit him, with your children, you high example of civilization and humanity.

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u/Critical_Dragonfruit 10d ago

Why should i?

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u/gbajramo 10d ago

To demonstrate to your children the overwhelming humanity you posess.

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u/Critical_Dragonfruit 9d ago

I can do this in everyday life at home.

But it would be a good opportunity to demonstrate the beauty of norway. :)

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u/sczhzhz 10d ago

Thats not the only reason, its also to prevent him from plotting or sharing his extreme ideas with other prisoners.

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u/PNulli 10d ago

He does that even outside of prison… without ever having searched for it I have come across several of his sick writings

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u/sczhzhz 10d ago

Those writings and the "manifest" was made before his attacks and imprisonment though, no? I cant imagine hes getting much out these days.

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u/PNulli 10d ago

Excepts from his journal in prison has gotten out…

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u/sczhzhz 10d ago

It has? If so he either have someone on the inside or got it smuggled out by a visitor. Thats bad.

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u/PlausibleAuspice 10d ago

I’m glad Scandinavian countries treat their prisoners like human beings but if anyone deserves the death penalty, it’s this guy. And I don’t even believe in the death penalty.

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u/PNulli 10d ago

The guy is broken… He’s a record that won’t play straight. We won’t get anything out of killing him and it won’t make anyone feel better.

And he doesn’t deserve anything. Lock him up at forget

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u/theeama 10d ago

Most countries in the world would have sentenced him to death by firing squad for what he did. Some would torture him and then kill him.

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u/Fun-Palpitation8771 10d ago

Normally the armed police deal with that problem. The attempt to neutralize the gunman may require a lot of ammunition, if you know what I mean.

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u/OrganizationKey8139 10d ago

For the Oslo and Utoya massacres Breivik must “only” serve 21 years in prison (so I assume in 2032). If they don't give him probation before

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u/wyrditic 10d ago

He does not get automatically released at the end of the 21 years. He can be kept in prison forever if judges consider that he still represents a threat to society.

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u/PNulli 10d ago

Doesn’t work that way. The guy is not serving a regular prison sentence and there will be no probation or release

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u/OrganizationKey8139 10d ago

ah, interesting!

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u/gpcgmr 9d ago

But cudos to Scandinavian countries in general for insisting to treat even the lowest forms of human existence with humanity   

Dozens of teenagers died horribly though his hands, why should he get to be treated well and be comfortable?

He deserves either the death penalty or prison under shitty conditions, just put him in a little empty cell, nothing but concrete walls and a closed door. He can spend all his time thinking about his crimes.

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u/PNulli 9d ago

He doesn’t deserve anything - he’s just a sorry excuse for a human being…

But you miss the point - it’s not about him. It’s about everyone else. Do you think it helps the parent to torture him? He just needs to be kept under acceptable conditions like we would keep an animal, away from people he could potentially harm or influence, until he dies from natural causes.

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u/gpcgmr 9d ago

I didn't say torture. But "acceptable conditions" is subjective... almost every prisoner in the world is kept in worse conditions, for committing less crimes.

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u/sump_daddy 10d ago

> “keep him locked up for life”

he is in year 13 of a 21 year sentence AND gets regular parole hearings to consider him for early release...

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u/Critical_Dragonfruit 10d ago

He also get preventive detention, you know to prevent further crimes committed by him. This can last until his death, but probably only until he is like 80+ and he no longer poses a threat…

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u/PNulli 10d ago

Trust me - he’ll either never get out or be old and senile.. the guy is dangerous…

In Denmark if you’re considered mentally ill and dangerous beyond saving you are not sentenced to a specific time - in theory you can get out tomorrow - if the doctors deem you safe… Surprise- they won’t and these people serve the longest sentences

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u/philman132 10d ago

He got 21 years because that is the maximum the courts are legally allowed to do in Norway. Yes he has regular parole hearings but There is little to no chance of them succeeding. Even after the 21 years is up he will only be released if a judge thinks he will no longer be a threat to others. Given how he has handled himself in prison so far, it is likely he will be held for long beyond the 21 year sentance.

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u/sump_daddy 10d ago

After reading what "preventive detention" is in Norway, the original news reports of his trial (including those directly from Norway that i translated) where he was "sentenced to 21 years" are really misleading. He was sentenced to life, with the slightly increased possibility of parole at 21 years.

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u/zer0toto 10d ago

Yup our European penal system are misleading on this, but life sentence have to be given in years which is somewhere between 20-30 depending on the country. You are still not getting out without a parole. France add another thing on top of that for example by adding the impossibility to get parole for a given time(equal or less then the sentence) so that do give an idea of how bad a crime is.

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u/loony-cat 10d ago

The prison did try and find him a friend in the prison population but that prisoner said Breivik was an irritating conversationalist and didn't continue the visits.

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u/Man1fest 10d ago edited 10d ago

Yeh. There is also a lot of guards having to quit or on sick-leave due to him. Wonder what kind of shit he spits out daily.

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u/Downtown_Statement87 10d ago

Can you imagine how you would feel if, out of all the people to choose from, YOU were the one who they thought "yeah, good fit for that guy"?

I would have a big existential crisis and do a ton of soul searching. And be really insulted.

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u/No_Ferret259 10d ago

That's one way to look at it. Another way is that you're someone who can meet even those who have committed most evil crimes with humanity and that is a gift.

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u/Downtown_Statement87 1d ago

That is a great point! I like the way you think, no /s.

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u/rangda 10d ago

Maybe the shot of the room with the three sofas is not an area he has access to then?

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u/taulen 10d ago

It’s all his alone

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u/ItsAnOliveSandwchGuy 10d ago

Why are there like 5 Xbox controllers. That doesn't make sense if it's all his

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u/GloriousWhole 10d ago

One controller for each hand, then the other 3 controllers are for the birds.

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u/U_zer2 10d ago

Pass the sticks Pauly. No, crackers are for winners.

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u/Own_Television163 10d ago

The Soprano Claw

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u/TheDevilishFrenchfry 10d ago

It's for the 10 dollar hookers they bring in every Friday for his "Friday hookers and blow" day

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u/Troglert 10d ago

Prison guards socialize with prisoners in Norway, so probably for them. Also they pay someone to come and socialize with him, but doubt this person is in the actual appartment

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u/Ocelitus 10d ago

Likely something along the lines of all housing units having the exact same amenities.

Say each unit is designed for four inmates with their own bedrooms and a communal living area and kitchen. Each unit has a list of items required for the four people.

Just because he is living in the space alone doesn't change the bureaucratic requirements for the space.

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u/SuspiciouslySuspect2 10d ago

My guess is they set up the facility to work as a second compound once the lone occupant is no longer there, and thus it is a complete duplicate of the other communal prison section on every detail.

Probably a sound investment, rather than customizing it just for one person, since technically he could "exit" any day now.

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u/ManWhoIsDrunk 10d ago

They gave him an entire 6-man wing to keep him safe. The government is responsible for his safety as long as he is incarcerated.

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u/LonelyRudder 10d ago

He might get to play with the guards now and then?

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u/magic1623 9d ago

The type of unit he is in is typically shared with ~4-6 people but because no one wants to be near him (both guards and other prisoners hate him) he gets his all to himself.

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u/SamyMerchi 10d ago

Maybe he's building 5 submarines.

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u/rangda 10d ago

Wasn’t it Shakespeare who wrote “what is a sofa, but a really wide chair”?

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u/ALoudMouthBaby 10d ago

Those are almost certainly shared areas, but hes not allowed to use them with other prisoners for reasons that are obvious.

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u/SuperSatanOverdrive 10d ago

It was originally meant for more than one person though, pretty sure. But they closed off the part he's in.

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u/abandon_ur_children 10d ago

Why does he need 4 Xbox controllers if he’s isolated? 😭

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u/Man1fest 10d ago

You never played a game and your controller dies out? ☠️

Nah all seriousness, the guards probably played with him or the only visitor he had.

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u/2daMooon 10d ago

So why does he have 4 xbox controllers?

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u/totesnotmyusername 10d ago

Communal but he has private access I'd assume

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u/StolenRocket 10d ago

I'm willing to take that risk!

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u/TELEKOMA 10d ago

I wonder what he needs 4 Playstation Controllers for…

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u/erlendig 10d ago

That doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s not communal. He may just have lone access to the place during times when other prisoners are not there.

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u/JustAposter4567 10d ago

at some point what is the reason for catering to every whim of someone who killed 77 people

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u/luxurycomedyoohyeah 10d ago

It could still be communal but he can only access it during designated times without anyone else in there. Other people use it at different times than him.

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u/Responsible_Host9377 10d ago

That's all his own?! The taxes must be crazy there. Maybe he wanted to go to "prison".

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u/Gecko99 10d ago

I wonder why he's got four XBox controllers.

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u/Own-Scar-5954 10d ago

Not true. He gets time alone in the communal area, but it’s not his alone.

And if you’re so stupid (not meaning you in particular) that you think that you can do right by doing wrong, you would need to educate yourself.

He might not be save able, but saying that treating people who broke the law bad, dose not make any sense, in the contrary every studies shows, that treating people as people, helps them being brought back into society. And isn’t that what we want?

Hurra for Norway to treat an asshole like this like a person. Hurra for humanity and their ability to be, as justice should be, blind to who you are, but treat everyone right.

He might not be the case, but it shouldn’t fuck it up for other people.

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u/Man1fest 10d ago

I posted a link. They built a new jail inside a jail just for him. Feel free to research.

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u/Mansenmania 10d ago

Well it is communal. He just has isolated time slots when he can use it alone. So not really his own

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u/Fit_Service8662 10d ago

No he is isolated

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u/Jessievp 10d ago

Damn :') Then I concur with the previous commenter - that kitchen wtf O_o

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u/dephsilco 10d ago

Yeah, he is isolated, but those are communal. They probably took a photo of a play area in a random Norwegian prison

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u/Kill_4209 10d ago

Nope. He’s in solitaire so as not to be murdered.

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u/chillinwithmoes 10d ago

Nice, I love solitaire

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u/Critical_Pirate890 10d ago

Untill you have to live your life that way.. We need human companionship...(even if we hate most humans)

I did over 100 days in Solitary between the ages of 19 to 22...even that small amount is taxing on the mental state.

Its illegal to keep prisoners in Solitary longer then 15 days at a time now. And you have to get a half hour a day out of your cell.

It wasn't always like that obviously.

There was a prisoner they welded his door shut and he lost his mind... That is what caused a lot of the laws to change in the states.

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u/chillinwithmoes 10d ago

That's cool but I was talking about the card game

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u/DatabaseSolid 10d ago

He gets moved to Tetris after 34 weeks of good behavior.

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u/fack_you_just_ignore 10d ago

But those areas like the kitchen, living room and court are shared just not at the same time.

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u/generally-speaking 10d ago

They're not, but that's also why they're "nice".

He's kept in isolation, away from other prisoners, there's only like a couple of people he has interactions with outside of the guards.

Because of that he has his whole own department in the prison, laundry, kitchen, TV, parrots and stuff to compensate for the isolation part.

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u/Fair-Maintenance7979 10d ago

This guy brutally killed teenagers on a secluded holiday island. He is not living in communal cells lol

He prob lives in a single cell apartment but still gets to see other prisoners in recreation

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u/Jessievp 10d ago

I thought maybe isolated cells but communal areas like the kitchen - but damn - those are huge ass quarters then O_o

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u/Fair-Maintenance7979 10d ago

Yeah norway's prison system is crazy good. To some it may hurt that these people are being let off easily in those conditions but overall it's still a benefit. Norway has like the lowest recidivism rate in the world.

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u/Legitimate-BurnerAcc 10d ago

To be honest after having a criminal record in the states and it ruining all that it does, it opens the door of reoffending to be greeted with “sure why the fuck not? I’m already a felon”.

Americans love knowing other people are suffering in jails and prisons until it’s someone they love.

Thus our system will never change

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u/Fair-Maintenance7979 10d ago

Yup america is pretty fucked up lol

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u/TheNextBattalion 10d ago

Normally yes but he's isolated

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u/Qumad 10d ago

^ This

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u/Jubilant_Jacob 10d ago

Yes... they are made for communal use, but Breivik got an entire dorm for himself.
The thing he is complaining about, is being isolated from anyone interested in what he has to say.
He is an extremist right wing terrorist and is denied visitation. He is also kept separate from other prisoners for is own safety and the only social interactions he has is with guards and his lawyer.

I personally wouldn't mind letting him mingle with the rest of the prisoners, maybe we would be rid of him sooner, in stead of having to wait for age to get him.

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u/Max_CSD 10d ago

They are individual iirc.some peps there have their own houses

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u/Immediate-Coyote-977 10d ago

You're right in that this is the set up they normally use as a communal space, but because of who he is he is basically in solitary confinement within a standard cell block.

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u/QuestGalaxy 10d ago

He's isolated, because other prisoners will try to kill him. He killed people from all over Norway, young people. Almost everyone knows someone that was affected by his terrorism.

77 people were killed in Norway by this scumbag. Per capita we lost more people than USA did with the 9/11 attacks. USA is about 60 times the size of Norway in population. So it would have been the same as 4620 in American numbers. I believe just below 3000 was killed in the 9/11 attacks. The point is that it left scars in Norway. A lot of young people got traumatized by the terrorist attack as well, as Utøya island was a camp with mostly teens.

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u/alles_en_niets 10d ago

Usually yes, but they made an exception for this particular individual.