Markle
Diamond Member
Explain, presuming you can find clever little pictures, the low recidivism rate in Norway.
Here, I’ll post a video, since reading this report probably isn’t your style.
Here’s the video.
Now, here’s the dirty little secret you don’t want to admit. People become what they are treated like. Civilians join the military, and from the get go they are treated like Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen. They become that because they are treated like that. The language is used. It isn’t a floor, it’s a deck. It isn’t a wall, it’s a bulkhead. It isn’t a hat, it’s a cover.
So you throw a person who is a first offender into a prison, a hole, with horrible food, and you think you’re training him to hate, and avoid future prison possibilities. But you’re training him to be an animal, and that is why our recidivism rate is over 60% nationally.
Compare and contrast with Norway, which has a recidivism rate of 20%. So if we change our approach we stand a fair chance of lowering the rate of people reoffending. We could cut the prison population by a million in the first couple years, a million fewer prisoners. A million fewer people to feed, and house.
Instead of building new prisons, why not change our approach, because the current system of warehousing the animals isn’t doing anything but breeding more animals.
Quite simple. In fact, I have visited the country several times and speak enough Norwegian to get by.
In my humble opinion, there are three basic reasons.
First, the population of the entire country is less than that of New York City.
Second, they have a vastly different culture than the United States. Yes, that makes a huge difference.
Third, Norway is a homogeneous country and the US is a heterogeneous country.