" We seem to be driving through a park when Høidal suddenly announces, “Here we are, then,” and gestures toward a series of attractive buildings through which he’ll walk me later in the day. I ask about the prison’s location and the parklike grounds, and he tells me that the architects who designed Halden Prison thought it was very important to keep the men close to nature, to ensure that the inmates did not lose connection with the natural world. "

― Christine Montross , Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration