The often used counter example to countries like Norway is you have a more homogeneous population of people, which leads to less internal social strife. I am

The often used counter example to countries like Norway is you have a more homogeneous population of people, which leads to less internal social strife. I am not saying your system does not provides benefits over the way we treat criminals in the US. It is just that you have to find a way to control for the different social conditions in both countries before you can make numerical comparisons.