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Prisons
Dec 20, 2018 22:53:45 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2018 22:53:45 GMT 10
I just watched a documentary on prisons in Norway with my friends. I'm so jealous! One of my friends works as a psychologist in a prison, it doesn't sound fun at all. Severe understaffing and overcrowding problems in Canadian prisons. Also, next to Norway, I cannot honestly say that Canada focuses all that much on rehabilitation, punishment is definitely a huge aspect of it. What are the prisons in Norway like? I take it that the living standards in the prisons must be desirable (at least from a western perspective), but how would you describe the conditions of the prisons? They're very humane. Instead of punishment, the interaction between prisoners and prison staff is very normal along the lines of "How is your day going?", "Did you have anything to eat?" etc. The point is that prisoners usually have a warped view on how badly behaved the average person is and what behaviour is acceptable, so confirming those beliefs by treating them sadistically doesn't make for good citizens once they're re-introduced to society. There are more prison staff than prisoners in the particular prison, I think the point is to normalize the behaviour of the prison staff as opposed to the prisoners'. The prison cells are rather extravagant. Everyone gets their own room with a bed, TV, desk, fridge, toilet and shower. You're allowed to leave your room only if you have a job; if you don't, I believe you are locked in your room for a few extra more hours in the day. There seem to be much more job and educational opportunities for prisoners in general, it looks like they don't want the years the prisoners are locked up in for to go to waste. Despite what seems to the rest of the word a luxurious prison stay, it doesn't sound like most prisoners want to be there (as opposed to the outside world). I think many of them consider themselves already rehabilitated and are itching to get back into the real world, and the fact that they can't is the "punishment". The redicisivism rate in Norwegian prisons is lowest in the world, so they must be doing something right! There's a lot more but it would take forever for me to remember it all. The documentary I watched is ironically called "Inside The World's Toughest Prisons" (on Netflix), but they documented Norway as a break from all the sadistic prisons from 3rd world countries 
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Prisons
Dec 21, 2018 19:45:44 GMT 10
Post by SharksFan99 on Dec 21, 2018 19:45:44 GMT 10
They're very humane. Instead of punishment, the interaction between prisoners and prison staff is very normal along the lines of "How is your day going?", "Did you have anything to eat?" etc. The point is that prisoners usually have a warped view on how badly behaved the average person is and what behaviour is acceptable, so confirming those beliefs by treating them sadistically doesn't make for good citizens once they're re-introduced to society. There are more prison staff than prisoners in the particular prison, I think the point is to normalize the behaviour of the prison staff as opposed to the prisoners'. The prison cells are rather extravagant. Everyone gets their own room with a bed, TV, desk, fridge, toilet and shower. You're allowed to leave your room only if you have a job; if you don't, I believe you are locked in your room for a few extra more hours in the day. There seem to be much more job and educational opportunities for prisoners in general, it looks like they don't want the years the prisoners are locked up in for to go to waste. Despite what seems to the rest of the word a luxurious prison stay, it doesn't sound like most prisoners want to be there (as opposed to the outside world). I think many of them consider themselves already rehabilitated and are itching to get back into the real world, and the fact that they can't is the "punishment". The redicisivism rate in Norwegian prisons is lowest in the world, so they must be doing something right! There's a lot more but it would take forever for me to remember it all. The documentary I watched is ironically called "Inside The World's Toughest Prisons" (on Netflix), but they documented Norway as a break from all the sadistic prisons from 3rd world countries That's interesting to hear about. To be honest, i'm not sure if I entirely agree with the way in which they handle their prisoners. I know prison conditions could be improved across some aspects, but I think the point needs to be emphasised that the crimes inmates have committed are wrong and you can't achieve that when the prisoners have much of the same luxuries as people on the outside have. There needs to be a fine balance between punishment and rehabilitation. A mass murderer should not get the opportunity to have any of those luxuries. I do think it's interesting though that the redicisivism rates in Norway are some of the lowest in the world. With the living conditions in the prisons being of such a high standard, it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that prisoners wouldn't be too concerned about being re-incarcerated again. You would think that the redicisivism rates would be about average.
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