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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by freyir on Friday March 22, 2019 @06:47AM (#19461216)
Nordic countries have low crime rates to begin with, which allow them to build relatively spacious prisons and allocate more treatment resources per prisoner.

It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem we’ve got. We could just not prosecute many non-violent crimes, like our District Attorney chose to do in San Francisco. But that didn’t pan out well and we now have the highest non-violent crime rate of any major US city.

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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by mcbits on Friday March 22, 2019 @07:37AM (#19461553)
> Nordic countries have low crime rates to begin with

Nature or nurture? If nurture, then it's at least highly plausible that their prison systems have something to do with it. Recidivism is also much lower.

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