This is what an 'inhuman' prison cell looks like in Norway
By American prison standards, Anders Behring Breivik—the Norwegian mass murderer who killed 77 people in 2011—is living in luxury. His cell has a treadmill, a computer, a private bathroom and a PlayStation.
But a Norwegian court ruled this week that his confinement amounts to “inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Those creature comforts didn’t make up for that fact that Breivik is kept in near-total solitary confinement, a judge concluded.
Breivik sued the government over his prison conditions last month, arguing that he was being subjected to torture because of the isolation. He is currently banned from having any contact with other prisoners in Skien prison.
While judge Helen Andenaes Sekulic found that the isolation violated the European Convention of Human Rights, she rejected another of Breivik’s requests to loosen restrictions on his visitors and communications with the outside world.