Vistheimilin

The episode provides a glimpse into the harmful activities of the Nursery at Hlíðarenda, which housed nearly five hundred infants in the last century. People are interviewed in the housing they stayed in as infants and how the accommodation had a formative effect on them. Former staff also describe shady care practices. It examines how the mistreatment of children could occur despite professionals knowing that the practices were extremely harmful.

The working practices of the Thorvaldsens' Nursery were for the longest time harmful and infants were subjected to bad treatment, just like at the Nursery at Hlíðarenda. We talk to a mother who lost her baby in the nursery and was then only allowed to look at it through a glass. Attempts to change practices at the institution are discussed and how the public sector tried for years to silence all criticism. Then the persons who stayed there return and describe the effects of the accommodation. Some of them even remember the stay.

Thousands of children and teenagers were locked up in juvenile detention centers in the last century. There are examples of children with disabilities being locked up there for almost two years. Some children were subjected to extreme violence and isolation and were even tied up during their stay. The episode will discuss The nine, which was a youth prison in Kópavogur. We talk to people who were locked up there for a longer or shorter time. Then the staff tells about the harshness that the young people were subjected to,

The state youth home in Kópavogur was defined as a research and treatment home for teenagers from the age of twelve. Former residents recall their stay. Some report non-stop violence, while others talk about the institution as their lifeline. Then it is told about the circumstances of their livelihood, which was often extremely arbitrary. Some of the children were on the street, while others were brought into the home due to difficult home conditions. A former employee of the home describes the home as a trash can where everything was messed up and there was no supervision.

Women who were kept in the shelter Laugalandi or Varpholti as teenagers tell about their experiences of being there. They describe mental breakdown and physical violence. They describe how they unsuccessfully tried to inform the authorities about how they were treated. A parent says that a teenage girl's behavioral problems have worsened rapidly after staying there. It wasn't until the women spoke to the media at the time that the authorities took over and it was decided to investigate their livelihood in Laugalandi and Varpholt. The result of the study is reported, which is striking. However, the girls say that the accommodation was even worse than the results indicate. The staff who took care of the girls, however, deny in the investigation that mental or physical abuse took place at the institution.