Prisons Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints

Re:Prisons Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated Pe... by arcticbull on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:00PM (#19037472)

American criminal justice system is in desperate need of reform. It's built around punishment and not rehabilitation making it wildly ineffective. It's totally inhumane. You take a bunch of people who don't know how to live in a society, then torture them instead of teaching them how, in a room full of other such people. Then they get out and shockingly over 76.6% of them do it again within 5 years as compared to the Norwegian system where people are treated like human beings and only 20% re-offend within 5 years [1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is...

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Re:Prisons Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated Pe... by owlninja on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:12PM (#19037606)

I agree with you to a large extent about the US prison system because it is certainly flawed. However I get so tired of these blanket comparisons between two countries that have almost nothing in common.

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Re:Prisons Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated Pe... by logfromblammo on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:31PM (#19037782)

There are a lot of Scandinavian transplants in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota. Perhaps you could compare Norway to just those three states, or just the white Lutherans in them, if those demographics data are available.

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Re:Prisons Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated Pe... by jameane on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:42PM (#19037899)

But the American prison system is wholly designed to punish certain people almost exclusively. There is a reason it is deemed the "new Jim Crow."

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