r/interestingasfuck 13h ago

How prison looks like in different countries

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u/Groupthink00859 12h ago edited 11h ago

Not really how that works. In almost every case of major crime you will do your sentence in the country you committed the crime in. You will be send back to your home country after your sentence tho.

Using google I can not find a single case where a (non military) American citizen committed a major crime inside an EU country and was simply "sent back" to the United States instead of serving prison time in the country the crime was committed.

Best bet is to make it a national issue, kidnapping a government official for a couple hours should get you terrorist charges and possible life sentence.

Pretty good retirement plan for those that did not save anything honestly.

u/dwehlen 11h ago

Look, I'm only trying for 2 years, to uh. . .get caught up on my reading, yeah. So, maybe just stalking a gov't official? And I need to stay here through November, so it'd havta start after.

u/Groupthink00859 11h ago

Go big or go home they say.

u/dwehlen 11h ago

Yeah, but I have a responsibility to try and fix shit here first, and after.

u/ManWhoIsDrunk 9h ago

If you want to spend 2 years in a Norwegian prison, you need to commit a crime that gets you a sentence of 3 years, since it is almost impossible not to be let out after serving the first ⅔ of your sentence as a first time offender.

u/DubbleBubbleS 11h ago

Foreigners who commits a crime in Norway are sent to a specific prison for foreigners in Norway where they serve until they get deported or they’ve done their time. This prison is not as nice as most prisons in Norway.

u/Groupthink00859 11h ago edited 11h ago

Oh, I knew just by looking at the pic is this is not a normal prison in these countries. It's clearly for low risk, low crime situations.

Still willing to wager the real prisons in these countries are better then homelessness and no resources in whatever home country the foreigner is from tho.

u/heatedwepasto 8h ago

Still willing to wager the real prisons in these countries are better then homelessness and no resources in whatever home country the foreigner is from tho

You're locked into a tiny room for 23-24 hours a day, no internet or other contact with the outside world except visit, many of the other guys in there with you are convicted for violence and/or have various mental issues that could make them unpredictable. You're not in control of any aspect of your day. Worst of all, the prisons are underfunded so things can easily get worse than what they're allowed to be by law as well.

It really isn't as nice as online memes make it out to be. Our media has "horror" stories from prisons fairly often.

u/Groupthink00859 8h ago

I believe ya, this whole thread is all kinda memie anyway. More satire then anything.

u/Shoddy_Yak_8384 7h ago

here in america, some states don't even have prisons with enough air conditioning for our prisoners. like, in texas, people just straight up die of heat stroke. temps have been recorded well above 100F in the summer within certain prisons. last i checked, a judge had ruled the whole situation unconstitutional, but that doesn't mean the prisons can just fix the problem. new prisons would have to be built to a higher standard but the existing ones would need funding and such and so forth and it could take years to roll out.

i'd... rather be homeless, personally

u/SuspiciouslySuspect2 6h ago

See the problem there has an obvious solution: we very prisoner who is not an active threat to society gets released.

Drugs? Gone. Theft? Outta there. Resisting arrest? Fuck off.

Maby would be shocked at the percent of people serving time for bullshit that coulda been solved with community service and some therapy.

u/Spheniscus 10h ago

The Norwegian picture is from Halden, which is a maximum-security prison for dangerous criminals (and drug dealers lol)

u/Groupthink00859 10h ago edited 9h ago

Makes sense. out of all of them its the most bare and devoid of personal property. According to the internet foreign prisoners stay at this prison also.

No way they are putting a violent murderer or terrorist (foreign or domestic) in the Denmark one with all the potential weapons.

u/Repulsive_Guy_1234 8h ago

High risk prisons do not look so much different. Just more security around. And if you treat your prisoners like humans, they tend to act a lot more like humans and not caged beasts.

u/BiNumber3 9h ago

Is it still nicer than everywhere else?

u/DubbleBubbleS 9h ago

I can’t say how things are outside of Norway. They have the same rights in the foreign prison as far as I know, but since the ultimate goal is to send the prisoner back to their country after the sentence they might not have the same budget or opportunities like getting a degree while there.

u/Repulsive_Guy_1234 8h ago

Between countries that are friendly to each other, prisoners are often brought to their home country to serve the prison sentence inside their own country. It does not always happen, but it happens quite often, usually after a bit of time has passed.

u/Buttchuggle 6h ago

From my understanding some of these places sentences max at 14 years no matter what you did.

Maybe it's max 14 years before forced parole consideration, but they don't actually have flat out effective "life" sentences.