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While I think prisons should be for reforming those that can be reformed and for punishing those that can't, the quality of the prisons in Norway is too high for my liking. The guy that killed 77 people has a prison cell nicer than my old apartment and I didn't kill 77 people, I am going to college. Instead of giving them nice prison cells, I think it should focus on making sure it doesn't happen in the first place. Of course that goes against America in general, we are very reactionary, even our healthcare is reactionary, not preventative.
The idea behind the American justice system is that you were handed a set of rights, the Right to life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness. When someone commits a crime, we find them to be violating one or all of the rights stated above. If you choose to throw your rights away by taking someone else's, you get punished. It's obviously very different in Norway.
[Edited on 12.01.2012 9:17 PM PST]