https://howwisethen.com/bridges-to-life-a-more-humane-and-effective-way-to-treat-criminals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bridges-to-life-a-more-humane-and-effective-way-to-treat-criminals Stories of Good People Doing Great Things Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://howwisethen.com/bridges-to-life-a-more-humane-and-effective-way-to-treat-criminals/#comment-83 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 21:53:06 +0000 http://howwisethen.com/?p=272#comment-83 NPR just had a story about how they treat prisoners in Norway. The government spends three times as much on prisoners per year as the US does (about $90,000 per prisoner), and they have less than a tenth as many prisoners per capita. The “prisons” are beautiful. They have private rooms with bathrooms and flat-screen tvs. And though the inmates have done bad things, the prison governor says, “…they are not bad people…. we treat them with respect.” Sounds like something the US might want to emulate. Bet it would take a LONG time to get us there, however.

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