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Originally Posted by djchameleon
What are the rates for rehabilitation in your country?
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I had a quick look on google, but I couldn't find anything .. norwegian prisons are very different from US prisons. There's also been experiments with a more "cushy" type of prison here and I believe it's been very good at rehabilitating inmates. Here's an article on one of them.
Where convicts live the good life
Regarding more "standard" prisons, I found this bit of info from another article. It has some numbers in it, but it's not very detailed :
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Originally Posted by Time
Halden, Norway's second largest prison, with a capacity of 252 inmates, opened on April 8. It embodies the guiding principles of the country's penal system: that repressive prisons do not work and that treating prisoners humanely boosts their chances of reintegrating into society. "When they arrive, many of them are in bad shape," Hoidal says, noting that Halden houses drug dealers, murderers and rapists, among others. "We want to build them up, give them confidence through education and work and have them leave as better people." Countries track recidivism rates differently, but even an imperfect comparison suggests the Norwegian model works. Within two years of their release, 20% of Norway's prisoners end up back in jail. In the U.K. and the U.S., the figure hovers between 50% and 60%. Of course, a low level of criminality gives Norway a massive advantage. Its prison roll lists a mere 3,300, or 69 per 100,000 people, compared with 2.3 million in the U.S., or 753 per 100,000 — the highest rate in the world.
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Norway's Halden Fengsel Prison: Humane Rehab for Inmates - TIME