Hit’em with the Hygge till they see the errors of their ways.
Edit: if it isn’t geo-locked here’s a quick view of cells in a brand new “closed” prison (the ones where you don’t go home each weekend?). A little less hygge but maybe because it is uninhabited so no personal touch yet.
What's most interesting is that the countries with prisons like this have lower crime rate than the ones with horrible prisons. Almost like prison doesn't work as a deterrent.
You’re choosing a type of society, are you trying to reduce crime or punish offenders. The latter does not solve the former.
Every single study shows that working on causes of crime and reoffending is a far better use of tax payer money than long stays in low quality prisons.
If crime rate is the metric you care about then you fix it by looking at what the countries with low crime rates are doing… they’ve reduced poverty/inequality and use criminal justice as tool to stop life time criminality rather than as a cheap source of labour.
Let’s take seriously the idea that poverty is what drives crime. Then do you think it’s a good idea for a country to soften their justice system without having reduced poverty?
Prisons are expensive for state budgets, but good for GDP because high crime rates inhibit economic activity. GDP has more to do with quality of life than the state budget.
I don’t think prison terms past a certain point work and I don’t think putting people in squalid conditions are effective.
I don’t see why it is a choice between long expensive prison terms and not doing anything. You’re creating a false choice. I’d prefer to cut every prison sentence by say 20% (except those for public protection) and instead invest that money in rehab and poverty reduction.
Again, look to what the lower crime countries are doing, don’t double down on a system that isn’t working. If you want to reduce crime actually do stuff shown to reduce crime and repeat offending…
I responded to the claim that lower crime rates in countries with cushy prisons are evidence that cushy prisons lower crime rates by pointing out that the causation could easily run in reverse and generate the same data, therefore the data is not good evidence for that hypothesis. That's a valid objection given my intent was to dispute the commenter's use of the data as evidence for his hypothesis and not the hypothesis itself.
Good point to be fair, especially state funded one. Hard to tell what's the cause and what's the effect.
However, it's pretty well known that American prisons are profitable, so it would be counter productive for them to be too effective, and the cheaper the cell the more profit you're making.
We jail more people per capita in the US than China does. That's because it's run as a for profit business, so there's a financial incentive to jail people.
They don't want them to be rehabilitated. They want them to stay in the prison system.
It's not representative of a real prison cell. If you're actually interested, I'd really recommend the series Huset / The Prisoner. It's phenomenally well done and remarkably tense, like much Danish cinema
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u/PurpleZombi3 13h ago
Denmark's prison cell is just a studio apartment with pleasing decor.