Ruchi Mangtani, Speaker at Behind the Bar Conference, Columbia University

so the idea of since most people in Norway are only in prison for a few months barely a year they're going to they're going to be a part of our Lives they're going to be our friends we're going to work with them they might be our neighbors so how do we create the conditions in prison where they are given the resources they need to thrive once they are released um and so more specifically these principles were kind of included in these four so first normality so the idea of making prisons as similar to life on the outside as possible so the idea is that that the punishment that they're receiving is going to prison after that once they enter prison everything should be tailored towards going back into real life and receiving the same treatment as everybody else so that means they're allowed to like wear their own clothes