Prison will hire people to befriend mass killer Breivik

The Norwegian prison where Anders Behring Breivik may be locked up for massacring 77 people will hire people with whom he can socialise, to keep him away from other inmates.

If jailed, Breivik could not have normal contacts inside the prison due to the risk of a hostage situation, Ila prison director Knut Bjarkeid said.

“Many of the measures surrounding Breivik are being created to avoid a hostage-taking, which would be the only way for him to get through all the different layers of security that have been established between him and freedom,” he told the paper. “That makes it impossible to allow normal contact with others.”