prisoners and prisons

Thirty-something, Sonny Lofthus has been in a Oslo prison for the last dozen years for crimes he didn't commit, pacified by an uninterrupted supply of heroin, and surrounded by a host of corrupt individuals determined to keep him jailed, but when he learns the truth about his father, who had earlier been exposed as a corrupt cop, he makes a brilliant escape to hunt down the people responsible for the crimes he has been paying for.

Discusses the work of the English woman whose pioneering efforts in improving the lot of prisoners were based on the premise that prisoners' behaviour would improve if they were treated more kindly.