Don't go to Australia. We're mostly locking up asylum-seekers on small off-shore island detention centers. This is not a good thing.
(Insert joke about not sure if the .au prison is the civilized one or the 3rd world one ... oh oh look what I just said, now I'm about to be sharing a cell with OP)
This goes double for the Norway comparison... whats the worst thing they can do to you in a Norway prison, serve lutefisk for dinner?
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A kickstarter to pay off his judge is something I've not seen yet and is an interesting hack on the system.
Or if forbidden by kickstarter, a startup competitor to kickstarter could have bribery as its secret weapon.
Imagine getting every NRA or NOW or Sierra Club or EFF member to donate to pay bribes in the 3rd world to help some cause.