The Super-Lux Super Max - An FP Slide Show Foreign Policy
I just read about a super max prison in Norway that looks like luxury college dorms. The purpose of the article was, I think, to enrage readers thinking that the mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik who killed all of those kids at a summer camp would end up in luxury accommodations. And I think that they will be successful in doing that. It doesn't seem fair. My initial reaction is that he should be locked up alone and made to suffer.
But on the other hand, I understand the intent behind the Norwegian criminal justice system. It is different from our American one, where we are entirely focused on the punishment aspect of the criminal justice system, to the extent that when someone does finally make it out of prison they can often not make it in society. Theirs is focused on rehabilitation, fixing people so that they can reenter society and not commit those crimes again. I don't know enough about the Norwegian system, but rather than scream in the injustice that these law breaker are living in the lap of luxury I'd rather take a closer look at what happens to prisoners ones they make it out. If the recidivism rate is lower than our abysmal 68%, it might be worth considering here. Not quite to the same extent, but maybe at least doing away with solitary confinement.
I just read about a super max prison in Norway that looks like luxury college dorms. The purpose of the article was, I think, to enrage readers thinking that the mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik who killed all of those kids at a summer camp would end up in luxury accommodations. And I think that they will be successful in doing that. It doesn't seem fair. My initial reaction is that he should be locked up alone and made to suffer.
But on the other hand, I understand the intent behind the Norwegian criminal justice system. It is different from our American one, where we are entirely focused on the punishment aspect of the criminal justice system, to the extent that when someone does finally make it out of prison they can often not make it in society. Theirs is focused on rehabilitation, fixing people so that they can reenter society and not commit those crimes again. I don't know enough about the Norwegian system, but rather than scream in the injustice that these law breaker are living in the lap of luxury I'd rather take a closer look at what happens to prisoners ones they make it out. If the recidivism rate is lower than our abysmal 68%, it might be worth considering here. Not quite to the same extent, but maybe at least doing away with solitary confinement.
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