You may be convicted of a crime in the eyes of your Government, but can turn a hero for the environmentalists by your term’s end!
The Bastoey Island in Norway is planning a prison with such goal-achieving services - can precisely call it an ‘ecological prison’.
The prison draws its philosophical inspiration from an old Indian saying:
We don’t own nature. We borrow and manage it in our lives, thinking about our descendants.
Playing important roles in their daily operations and learning to do their bits in protecting the environment, hence minimizing their carbon footprint, inmates in the prison will be taught to produce most of its own food and recycle everything there.
The low security prison draws 70 percent of its electricity needs from the installed solar panels within the jail.
This innovative plan is made in a bid to develop a sense of responsibility in the inmates, preparing them for an eco-friendly life outside its non-existent walls.
Ah! Surrounded with beaches and green fields, the prison grounds interestingly extend into a nature reserve, making it popular among the inmates.
Justice Minister Knut Storberget told Reuters,
On a long-term basis, from a social and economic perspective, this is cheapest for society.
The world’s first ecological prison definitely grows as a paradigm that nobility - be it for the environment - knows no boundaries, walls or bars!
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