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Once the site of Sweden's largest prison and now a green haven for the people of Stockholm, the little island of Langholmen sits in the waterway between Sodermalm and Kungsholmen and offers a striking example of a place reborn. From the eighteenth century the island was given over to incarceration, and its central jail loomed over the channel until it was finally closed in the 1970s; rather than demolish the buildings, the city turned them to new uses, so that today part of the old prison houses...