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You can get decent food, good education, internet access, bike rides and running in Norwegian prisons - you're still there for {X} years (depending on behaviour).

Well, stationary bike riding at least - not all of them have large yards that take a good while to cycle about.

* https://www.sixnorwegianprisons.com/spaces/rehabilitation.ht...

  Some prisons have large field for outdoor activities, like walking together, running, playing football, and skiing and skating in the winter. 
* https://www.sixnorwegianprisons.com/spaces/yard.html

> But then it's not much of a (US) jail anymore...

exactly - these are Norwegian gaols. They started out much like US gaols but once it came clear how poorly they performed (wrt good of community rather than pockets of BigBarsCo.) they were overhauled:

* https://www.firststepalliance.org/post/norway-prison-system-...

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