What is the first thing that
comes to your mind when you hear of a prison? Dark and dull walls
surrounded by lots of fencing, a large gate and armed watch towers,
dusty playgrounds and all this at one of the isolated corners of
the city. Inside, around a 6 by 8 feet room guarded by the solid or
barred doors with some furniture and fixings on walls and floor.
That’s a usual sight you would notice at prisons round the
world that house the most inhumane masses who have been sentenced
for imprisonment for their disrespectful and unlawful conduct in
the society. However, surprisingly a few lucky criminals also get
to taste the prison life with a flavor of luxury and believe or
not, that even could be equivalent to living in a five star
hotel.
There are a number of prisons in
the world that offer the most luxuries and comfortable life to its
inmates. Luxury here translates as living in a bright, spacious
room with a comfortable bedding, a TV, may be a refrigerator, a
study or a library in the building, a gym to stay fit, game courts
to spend their leisure time and other such tidbits that a normal
prison inmate can only dream of. Now that is definitely a place
where our dearest Lindsay Lohan and her likes with lofty pockets,
wouldn’t mind putting up. So let us take a look at the top five
luxurious prisons and their lavish cells where prisoners
wouldn’t mind their sentence extended for a longer time.
3. Halden Prison, Norway
Offering larger than life experience for the prisoners, the
Halden Prison packs a bunch of amenities for its inmates that
include the sound studio, jogging trails and a freestanding
two-bedroom house where they can even host their families during
overnight visits. TVs, minifridges in the spacious and well lighted
rooms, modest library, wraparound sofas and birch-colored coffee
tables in living rooms and so on, its like a small well established
town within concrete walls . The prison
that has a capacity of 252 inmates also focuses upon
rehabilitation of the hard core criminals to turn them into well
behaved humans of society.
2. Austrian
Five Star Prison
Located in city of Leoben in Austria, the Leoben Justice
Centre is one of the world’s best looking prison that
houses complex of courts, offices of Judges, and ofcorse a
prison. Also a gym, well furnished and clean cell with a personal
TV and lots of other high class amenities would tempt even the
common people to commit a crime.(Count me in the list.)
1. Al Capone’s
cell, Philadelphia
Yes that might leave you readers a little bewildered for
keeping it on the first position. But this one is my favorite
as it dates back to 1929 when Al Capone , the king of
Chicago’s underworld was held captive at Eastern State
Penitentiary. While the paintless walls have another story to tell,
the decor of the room reveals the luxurious life that the crime
master lived during his eight years of imprisonment.
