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Originally Posted by fulham
Norway cant be used as a comparable for many of these issues. Norway has a homogenous wealthy population, which is a huge part of their culture; and also why they are willing to pay high taxes, and fund rehabilitative style prisons.
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They don’t pay a heck of a lot more than us per prisoner, and based on lower rates of re-offending and generally better outcomes, you’d be hard pressed to make a sound financial argument against it.
And, of course, they absolutely can be used as a comparison. Anything can be used as a comparison. That doesn’t mean the results would be exactly the same but it does give us something to learn from. Dismissing it as “invalid example, disregard” completely misses the point of learning about it in the first place.
Canada occupies a nice middle ground between Norway and the US. Including culturally. The question is whether you want to work towards being more like the US or more like Norway when it comes to our prison system. Good luck arguing the benefits of the US system.