Conference turris::scandia

318.0. "Stockholm Prison at $10.00p/night." by BTO::BOATENG_K (ECOUTEZ ! QUAND LE CONSCIENCE PARLE !) Mon Jan 30 1989 21:20

    The following appeared in the 'Montreal Gazette' issue of
    Jan. 28, 1989.
    
    The head lines read: 
    
    STOCKHOLM TO OFFER HOSTELERS A NIGHT IN PRISON -- FOR:
    $12.00 (Canadian $ About 10.00 U.S.)
    
    An unusual new type of budget accomodation facility will open
    in Stockholm this summer. You will be able to stay in a PRISON
    for only $12.00 (Canadian..) a night.
      The new LANGHOLMEN YOUTH HOSTEL will open on JUNE 1st 1989.
    It's in a RENOVATED PRISON on the island of Langholmen(Long Island)
    near city centre. You can reach it by bus and subway. 
    Bars are being LEFT ON SOME OF THE WINDOWS, and a cafe' will be
    set up in the exercise yard.
    College Dormitory-style accomadation will be available for up to
    254 guests, in two or four-bedded rooms.
      If you already have a membership in the International Youth Hostel
    Federation, the fee is $12.00 (Canadian, about $10.00 U.S.)
    This includes a continental breakfast.
    
      Any takers from this Scandia notesfile for THIS SUMMER ??
    
    p/s I thought this was a piece that social-psychologists might want
    to analyze and perhaps explore further...one observation being in
    some parts or should I say "most" parts of the Globe the prison
    population is so high there are not enough to house all the inmates
    resulting in prison over-population as well as 'regular' periodical
    expansions of old facilities and the building of more....
      Yet some other nations have such 'few' prison inmates or excess
    prison facilities they are converted to commercial accomodational
    use......
    
    
    (Above compiled by: Dr. Conscience - a Global Historical
    Events'Observer)