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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Posted by: ErranInfigo
Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
And? Find a better place to live.
I did, I am living at home and I have to commute to Aptos now.
Prisons, in Norway, are not meant to be hell on earth. They are a place where criminals are rehabilitated and prepped for re-release back into society.
Well, I was pretty right when I said everyone skipped my post. I said I don't think they should be hell holes, but I also don't think they should be nicer than what a college student can afford on Minimum wage.
Its a different mentality that works very well for them. Norway has one of the lowest crime and recidivism rates in the Western World. They are doing something right. Most criminals only see that prison once.
When most of their crime is in one city, Oslo, and most of it isn't violent crime besides the high number of -blam!- assaults, it has more thievery than a city 8x larger than it is (New York) the crime rate is going to be low. You don't have much trouble reforming guys who probably stole something so they could get 3 square a day and a cot. Or in this case, TV, a computer, soft beds and large cells.
The real problem is the WE allow our college students to exist at a level below that of prisons in Norway, and not the other way around.
Stop trying to divert to my situation with school, it isn't even the point. I didn't kill 77 people. I don't want the bastard drawn and quartered, but I don't want him to be in a place with a better quality of living than most people in the world have.
[Edited on 12.01.2012 9:57 PM PST]