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I remember when I first saw a picture of a Norwegian prison, all the comments were along the lines of "that has things my home doesn't". Obviously, people were
by blueskin_ 12y ago
I remember when I first saw a picture of a Norwegian prison, all the comments were along the lines of "that has things my home doesn't". Obviously, people were so impressed they headed to Norway to get arrested.
- mercurial 12y agoMeanwhile, in France, prisons are 20% over capacity and have the highest suicide rate in Europe. Maybe the EU should do something about that and impose EU-wide standards closer to the Norwegian model.
- tormeh 12y agoI'm more curious about the Dutch. How come so few are in prison? What are they doing right? Imposing one successful country's standards EU-wide would be a short-term improvement, but we would lose whatever the Dutch are doing right, though it might just be drug laws and not prisons per se. Diversity allows for policy experimentation.
- Filligree 12y agoWell, there's their drug policy— All things considered, that should be a major factor on its own.
- unhammer 12y agoThe Netherlands have a comparable prison population to Norway: http://www.prisonstudies.org/country/netherlands http://www.prisonstudies.org/country/netherlands 75/100,000 http://www.prisonstudies.org/country/norway http://www.prisonstudies.org/country/norway 72/100,000 However, Norway has less prisons. That's why they want to "export people", not because there are so many prisoners on a world scale. (The US is also on that site: http://www.prisonstudies.org/country/united-states-america http://www.prisonstudies.org/country/united-states-america )
- mercurial 12y ago> Diversity allows for policy experimentation. Sure, but when the "experimentation" involves inmates being bitten by rats, maybe some minimal standards are in order [1]. 1: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/france-la-sante-prison-paris-renovation http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/france-la-sante...