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"I'm watching Inside the World's Toughest Prisons on Netflix. Besides being interesting and chilling, they did something very interesting.
Most of it is the host being treated like an inmate at various prisons. Almost all of them are incredibly awful, dehumanizing institutions. As you would expect.
Then in the second season he gets thrown into Norwegian Prison. Prisons in Norway are known for not having any of the typical prison features. They're very nice. The cells look like high end hotel rooms. They have access to advanced job and skill training. Education, all sorts of stuff. Everything about it is to normalize the inmates and teach them what it's like to live in a functioning society. And it works, they have the lowest recidivism rate by a country mile. People leave there WANTING to be part of a functional group.
What was really weird to me though. Typically the host will ask other inmates what their crimes are. Typically, they'll readily volunteer the information, sometimes resigned to it, sometimes seemingly proud of it. But in Norway, it was immediately different. He asked a few people about their crimes and it was like he kicked them in the nuts. They looked shaken about what they had done. It made all the difference, they looked GUILTY.
It's a fascinating show."
Copied from a friends's status:
"I'm watching Inside the World's Toughest Prisons on Netflix. Besides being interesting and chilling, they did something very interesting.
Most of it is the host being treated like an inmate at various prisons. Almost all of them are incredibly awful, dehumanizing institutions. As you would expect.
Then in the second season he gets thrown into Norwegian Prison. Prisons in Norway are known for not having any of the typical prison features. They're very nice. The cells look like high end hotel rooms. They have access to advanced job and skill training. Education, all sorts of stuff. Everything about it is to normalize the inmates and teach them what it's like to live in a functioning society. And it works, they have the lowest recidivism rate by a country mile. People leave there WANTING to be part of a functional group.
What was really weird to me though. Typically the host will ask other inmates what their crimes are. Typically, they'll readily volunteer the information, sometimes resigned to it, sometimes seemingly proud of it. But in Norway, it was immediately different. He asked a few people about their crimes and it was like he kicked them in the nuts. They looked shaken about what they had done. It made all the difference, they looked GUILTY.
It's a fascinating show."