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LittleLight85 t1_iriz4ru wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in A Pennsylvania prison gets a Scandinavian-style makeover – and shows how the US penal system could become more humane by JBupp

>Prisoners should not live better than our working class.

This doesn’t make the point you think it does

>We have a different culture than Scandinavia. Norwegians aren't killing each other over literally nothing daily like Americans.

Yeah, the extreme socioeconomic inequality is a major driving force for crime in the US. We have a culture that keeps people poor and desperate, or mentally ill with no resources, and wonder why there’s a crime and violence problem.

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[deleted] t1_irj37p9 wrote

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Joe_Jeep t1_irjq7e8 wrote

The culture problem comes from inequality and decades(really centuries) of damages inflicted on the poor and minority groups in general

Your idea seems to be continuing to punish it out of the folks already in a terrible position

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