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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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.
We'll see in the next 5-10 years. California—and municipal governments in SF and LA—are currently running a huge experiment in decriminalization and therapeutic-first prison policies. It will be interesting to see the results.
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Are they giving therapy-oriented polices within the prisons themselves are just refusing to arrest people? Because if its the latter, that's not the Finnish model at all. It's a misconception of it.
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Both, under the rubric of "restorative justice." I wrote about Seattle's movement here:https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-movement-to-deconstruct-justice-and-social-order …
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The problem with how they are doing it in California is you already have a populace acting with few to no morals. It would have been a better representation to try it with a populace that wasn't demoralized.
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Decriminalization attempts here tend to be overreactions. What needs to happen is proportional restitution. Offending parties still need to be held responsible to the harmed and society, but that responsibility needs to be proportional. Cali wants to remove responsibility (bad)
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Well said!
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SF and LA are also effectively decriminalizing theft and public disorder. A better experiment would also involve effective policing.
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