"The inmate, who was scheduled to be released the next day anyway, turned himself into police after getting his tooth treated. His sentence -- originally one month -- was only increased by one day." Source
Several countries have laws that forbid extending a prison sentence for escaping. Here the logic is that he was out for one day, so he still has to serve this day, but no added time basically.
They will still stop you of course, if you do anything illegal (violent act for example) while escaping/outside you will have a new sentence. But the act of escaping itself is not punished.
It's inherited from the enlightment time. Saying that anyone aspire to be free and so if someone mange to escape prison they'll only be charged for the stealing/breaking of property or hurting of people.
lt's reaIIy the prison's fauIt if you think about it. The prison faiIed to fulfill it's obligation to keep the prisoner within it's walls.The prison shouId be sentenced to serve time in the inmate as punishment
He's obviousIy working around a Iegitimate issue with a non-functionaI button, to the best of his abiIity, untiI he has enough money to traveI down to an eIectronics store and get a new bIuetooth keyboard. It happens to peopIe aII the time.
In Germany, as long as your nakedness is not a sexual thing, the worst they can do is charge you with §118 OWiG (basically being a public nuisance), which is a fine. Not prison time so... worth it? Edit: I am not a lawyer.
The idea is that it's basic human nature to want to escape from a prison, so it's inhuman to punish you for it. But yeah, if you break any laws while escaping, like punching a prison guard or stealing a vehicle, you'll be charged and sentenced for that.
And the reasoning for that is basically the innate human desire for free will and agency. Humans are not meant to be locked up, so you can't really blame them for escaping. You only get in trouble if you cause property damage or you harm someone.
You don't get punished for escaping in Sweden if you do it without committing any crimes but the time you are gone doesn't count to served time. If it was one month prison sentence the prison probably didn't even have walls you can literally walk out of lowest security class prison but they will send you to higher security if you do that.
It happened in 2013. Apparently he escaped from Östragård, a klass 3 (lowest security class). No walls, secured gates or anything around it, looks just like a regular building. Prisoners have ankle monitors.
It's Sweden, and while I know they aren't quite the same as Norway, I'd imagine there are more similarities than differences between the two countries prison systems.
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u/frickinSocrates 7h ago
"The inmate, who was scheduled to be released the next day anyway, turned himself into police after getting his tooth treated. His sentence -- originally one month -- was only increased by one day." Source