Rulebreakers: A beautiful prison

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Greenland has been detangling its colonised relationship with Denmark since World War Two. Along the way, each state service and law needs to be rewritten. In 1948, three young Danes were sent to research and write Greenland’s first Criminal Law. They hoped they were writing a blueprint for the world’s first modern prison-less society. Instead their social experiment put the nation in a 70-year-long limbo.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Shereen Neshut and welcome to episode 3 of Rule Breakers, a BBC World Service Sundance Institute
0:08.3	Collaboration where we invite filmmakers to create audio documentary about people doing things their own ways.
0:14.4	This next episode a beautiful prison is a truly visual radio program.
0:20.2	Now come with me to Greenland on a journey through time an expedition to see if a society
0:26.9	without prisons is possible.
0:31.8	It's 2008.
0:34.7	2008.
0:36.3	In Newk, the capital of Greenland, there is a red wooden house tucked into thick layers of snow. The house is right by the fjort not far from the high street in this town of 18,000.
0:48.0	This house looks ordinary in nuke, but globally speaking it is unique.
0:56.0	Greenland has no prisons.
1:00.0	At the open institution, there is no battle detector. We don't carry weapons.
1:07.0	Instead it has houses like these, open institutions where inmates live and sleep but can have regular jobs in town.
1:17.0	There is no wall around it or barred windows.
1:21.0	There is just a door. You grab a set of keys and handcuffs and that's that.
1:30.0	Paul Peterson just started working as a guard at the open institution.
1:34.0	Before I was a fisherman.
1:40.0	My wife and I had agreed that I would work on land.
1:44.0	We had two little ones back then.
1:48.0	From the very beginning, I was told you won't earn much of a salary compared to fishing. I'm totally fine with that. But when I showed
1:57.4	off from my first shift I couldn't help but look out of the window because I felt too but it's still interesting to me working as a
2:06.1	guard.
2:07.1	Are you from San Mitzia or are you from?
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