Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement

Re:Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement by ck425 on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @06:30AM (#10972880)

In Northern European countries rehabilitation of prisoners to enable reintegration back into society is viewed as the primary goal of incarceration. So if they're unable to rehabilitate someone after 16 years that's viewed to an extent as a failure of the system. The number of people who can't be rehabilitated after 16 years of such a system is likely to be tiny.

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Re:Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement by Thlom on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @07:26AM (#10973058)

Also worth noting that most long term prisoners will not serve their whole sentence in a normal prison with bars and such. They will be moved to a quasi open prison where they get limited freedom to roam, work, structure their day and so forth. At least in Norway. Most people, criminals or not, are not clinically insane axe murderers.

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Re:Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement by arethuza on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @08:23AM (#10973239)

And those that are "clinically insane axe murderers" should be a in a secure hospital, not a prison.

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