This reminds me of an article Time Magazine did on Norway's Halden Prison. Essentially, when the Norwegian justice system treated their inmates more humanely,

This reminds me of an article Time Magazine did on Norway's Halden Prison. Essentially, when the Norwegian justice system treated their inmates more humanely, their recidivism (crime after prison) rate became 40% less than the US and the UK. Similarly, in Norway, there are only 69 inmates per 100,000 people, compared to 753/100,000 in the United States. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1986002,00.html http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1986002,00....