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Nilsen

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  1. 1
    A surname from Norwegian.

    "Inmates are screened to make sure they’re mentally stable and unlikely to plot an escape before they come to Bastoy. The vast majority – 97%, according to Nilsen – have served part of their sentences at higher-security jails in Norway. In the four years Nilsen has been heading up the prison, there have been no “serious” incidents of violence, he said."

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian Nilsen.

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