Blood & Treasure observes:
There's a surprisingly bad, Daily Mail-sque photo article at FP on Norway's prisons, full of pictures of inmates enjoying themselves in healthy activities rather than being beaten, raped, or forced to shit in a bucket like criminals deserve.
Two statistics.
Norway's incarceration rate: 66 per 100,000 inhabitants. US incarceration rate: 738 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Recidivism rate after prison in Norway: between 40 and 45 percent. In US, approximately 67 percent. (And the Norwegian figures were for life, I believe; the US ones are just for "within 3 years of release."
You need to look up two more statistics:
1) How much more profit does a for-profit prison make with the higher recidivism rate.
2) How many complaints of rape, beatings, or being forced to shit in a bucket have ever been filed in the prisons for the wealthy Americans (the ones with golf courses and tennis courts for the .0000001% of the wealthy that are actually convicted)
Posted by: JJ | August 03, 2011 at 08:30 PM
Good work, i love the concept.
Best regards!
Maria
Posted by: Receitas especiais | July 31, 2011 at 10:33 PM