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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
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.
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Not to many PepsiFree posts I agree with as strongly as this one.
Incarceration needs to serve two purposes: protect the public from violent people and rehabilitate them. Any place they're separate accomplishes #1, so focusing on #2 makes sense.