re: #69 Obdicut

The funny part to me is how many people get angry about how well prisoner’s are treated in Norway, and just choose to ignore that it works.

They have incredibly low amounts of inmate violence, incredibly low amounts of recidivism. It’s a really amazingly well-done system.

It’s not entirely transportable here, because Norwegian society is also invested in giving the prisoners a second chance, whereas ours has a tendency to treat ex-felons as radioactive, but it’s really worth study if we want to fix our prisons.

Do you think it is comparable. Their population is much different that ours. I think our crime is probably much different too—at least in scale.

I’d like to think that some parts of it could be implemented here, but by the time the inmate get’s to prison it is often too late. Many do succeed, but it’s a tough road.

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