Marius Borg Hoiby had pleaded not guilty to the most severe accusations against him, including those of rape, while admitting to some lesser ones, and can appeal the verdict.
The stepson of Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon has been found guilty of two counts of rape, one count of domestic violence and other crimes and is sentenced to four years in prison, an Oslo court ruled on Monday.
Marius Borg Hoiby, 29, who joined the royal family when his mother Mette-Marit married Haakon in 2001, was acquitted on two other accounts of rape.
He had pleaded not guilty to the most severe accusations against him, including those of rape, while admitting to some lesser ones, and can appeal the verdict.
Prosecutors had asked that Hoiby should be sentenced to seven years and seven months of prison.
Will he be serving his sentence in an ordinary civilian prison like any citizen convicted of the same crime, or will they designate a palace as a prison and lock him in it?
He has spent the last few months locked up in a regular prison, and has even been denied serving from home to spend time with his dying mother, so no special treatment here.
It’s Norway, from what I understand even the worst Norwegian prison is vastly nicer than studio apartments in the average American city. So I suppose it depends on what your definition of “ordinary prison” is.
In most European countries prisons provide good living conditions and are safe places because the goal is to reintroduce people into society as better persons after they served their time. Not brutalize them and make them outcasts that basically can only reoffemd if they want to survive.
Exactly. Complete opposite of the US where they run prison for profit.
And if anything American prisons make criminals into better criminals. It’s called con college for a reason.
That is why their recidivism rate is super low.
Which is kinda counter-intuitive now that I think about it… if your life sucks outside of prison, getting back would be a priority.
How much better do those countries life if those prisons are undesirable?
Prisons built for punishment leave convicts getting out in a much worse mental state than when they came in, leading to more likely repeat offenders. If you take that into account, building your prisons for rehabilitation and reintegration into society is obviously more efficient.
Also, while Norwegian prisons may look nice, you‘re still gonna be stuck in an enclosed space following a strict routine for multiple years. That’s gonna suck no matter how nice that space may be.
I don’t think it’s counter-intuitive.
US prison causes severe trauma. Prisoners learn to survive in an environment where they have to engage in aggressive behavior just to get through their morning. Everything is taken from them, no opportunity for personal development, and they’re thrown on the street with zero resources after. It’s practically designed to force people to repeat the cycle and feed the prison system.
It’s profitable too, 14th amendment and all. A prison company wouldn’t want to reduce it’s slave labor force so there’s no incentive to do better. Historically it’s an easy win for politicians too.
While I’m not a fan of most carceral systems at least the Norwegian one tries not to treat people like livestock. That said, a prison is still a cage.
You’ve gotta wrap your head around just how awful american life is compared to most European countries. These prisons exist to make people reflect on and regret their crimes, and to come out ready to integrate with society and not reoffend.
Life in many European countries is filled with social nets and programs that actually give people better lives.