• Norway prisoners heartbroken as inmate-run farm closes
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[QUOTE=Paramud;45567227]I'd rather convert our country's system to a working one but it'd be a lot easier to start by showing people that it actually works a hell of a lot better than shoving people in a box for 60 years for selling mariguana and downloading music[/QUOTE] fix your social values and culture then fix the prisons scandinavian style incarceration wouldnt work in the US today
This sucks. My grandpa had cows and he always loved to care for them. When he got to old for farm work and they had to take the cows away he basically lost all will to do anything and has spent the last 10 years waiting for death in front of a TV. :(
[QUOTE=.Lain;45565286]so you'd rather just rely on another country's working system than fix your own?[/QUOTE] outsourcing
[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;45565770]All he is proposing is that it would be great if we could send limited amounts of criminals charged with non-violent and minor crimes to other countries systems instead of cramming them in a 10x10 cell with another inmate who could be in for stabbing children. Our prison system isn't going to be fixed any time soon and the situation above is a lot more realistic to achieve than overhauling our entire system. I don't expect any significant progressive changes to how our prisons are ran for at least twenty years until we can (maybe) fix some of the even worse problems in our country. Until then our governments idea of "fixing our own" is going to be to build more prisons.[/QUOTE] Seems like the US might benefit evaluating their sentences for non violent crimes...
I wish our prisoners were rehabilitated.
quick if you live in Norway get a arrested so we can keep the farm open
[QUOTE=Greaterbeing;45570580]fix your social values and culture then fix the prisons scandinavian style incarceration wouldnt work in the US today[/QUOTE] I think this is kind of the case. Norway is pretty much a country made up entirely of middle class people, what works there won't necessarily work in the US
We are too though because our entire lower class is in jail
[QUOTE=wraithcat;45571095]Seems like the US might benefit evaluating their sentences for non violent crimes...[/QUOTE] the united states has a habit of putting criminal penalties onnnon-criminal infractions, many which are way overblown.
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