Today I've been researching the Finland prison system as compared to ours and I recognize that we knew this already but literally, America, wtf?
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The problem is translation. The Finnish population is very different from the American population. The United States, unfortunately, is also an exceptionally violent country, including organized violence through gangs. There is a limit to hehabilitative-style programs here.
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Yes and no. We were thinking about implementing similar policies until the 80s when the war on drugs screwed everything up. I recognize that these policies would look very different in America because of what you point out but I suspect it'd be better than the current nightmare.
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A good first step would be to stop for-profit prisons.
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There is a limit that will make it different from Finnish style(s), but our approach needs nuance that just isn’t there, especially in regards to lower level offenses and proportional roads to restitution (not saying you suggested “we’re perfectly fine!” just adding my thoughts).
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Also, imprisoning men for extensive amounts of time far past anything resembling justice or preventing recidivism *does* help perpetuate fatherless homes and the generational poverty/crime cycle. The left isn’t *entirely* wrong there, imo
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I’ve some hope things might be helped by more European style policing - which involves both less prison time and more officers per capita. Right wingers don’t like the first part, leftists are deliberately ignorant of the second.
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Prison will brutalise non-violent inmates until they are violent.
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The education system in Finland is better as well. All of society would have to be restructured, and being with education will be a messy discussion with little agreement. I believe our freedom here is our greatest and worst virtue.
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