Anders Behring Breivik, a far-right xenophobe, shocked the world when he murdered 77 people, many of them children, with a car bomb attack in the Norwegian capital of Oslo and a shooting rampage on a nearby island on July 22. These images of Norway's cushy penal system -- where prisoners have flat-screen televisions and mini-fridges in their rooms -- stood in stark contrast to the cold-blooded horror of Breivik's crimes.

Alex Masi