Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners

[DamianTV]

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/11/12/036242/sweden-is-closing-many-prisons-due-to-lack-of-prisoners?sbsrc=md


"Sweden is taking steps to close many prisons due to lack of prisoners. This year alone, four prisons and a detention center got closed in Sweden. The percentage of the population in Sweden prison is significantly lower than in most other countries. ... Though the Swedish Government is taking steps to close the prisons, the crime rate in Sweden has increased slightly. It seems they are planning to take steps for preventing crime rather than focusing on jailing people involved in criminal activities."

[phill4paul]

They're following the wrong BUSINESS model.

[Pericles]

When you don't bother to punish crime, there is no need for prisons. I'll just drop this here:

Researchers behind the EU study, which will be presented on Tuesday, conclude that rape appears to be a more common occurrence in Sweden than in continental European countries.

http://www.thelocal.se/20090427/19102

[tod evans]

Check their drug laws/policy, I've got an inkling that there's something to do there...

[aGameOfThrones]

Here, a bailout the prison complex would get. Btw, it would not be in the form of money at first.

[DamianTV]

They're following the wrong BUSINESS model.

Right and Wrong are Subjective Opinions, contrary to the beliefs of the US Govt.

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Check their drug laws/policy, I've got an inkling that there's something to do there...

Ok now this one is an example of the wrong BUSINESS model! :p

[phill4paul]

When you don't bother to punish crime, there is no need for prisons. I'll just drop this here:

Researchers behind the EU study, which will be presented on Tuesday, conclude that rape appears to be a more common occurrence in Sweden than in continental European countries.

http://www.thelocal.se/20090427/19102

Sweden: 46 per 100k

Amerika: 53 per 100k.

Law and order. Hurrah!

[DamianTV]

Sweden: 46 per 100k

Amerika: 53 per 100k.

Law and order. Hurrah!

But but but but we can divide by 10 to make those statistics look better!

We only have 5.3 rapes per 10,000 people! WTF is a .3 of a rape? Oh, just a way of fudging the numbers.

Oh yeah, and Japan has the lowest number of Unsolved Murders in the world because they dont count finding a dead body full of stab wounds as an Unsolved Murder but do count it as something else that is percieved to be less threatening than it really is. Another way to distort the statistics.

Does anyone really believe our Economy has recovered?

Does anyone really believe our official Unemployment Statistics?

Does anyone, for that matter, believe anything our Govt says?

[pcosmar]

Researchers behind the EU study, which will be presented on Tuesday, conclude that rape appears to be a more common occurrence in Sweden than in continental European countries.

http://www.thelocal.se/20090427/19102

Rape? or the accusation of Rape?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193641/Julian-Assange-rape-claim-Is-photo-clear-him.html

[Contumacious]

When you don't bother to punish crime, there is no need for prisons. I'll just drop this here:

Researchers behind the EU study, which will be presented on Tuesday, conclude that rape appears to be a more common occurrence in Sweden than in continental European countries.

http://www.thelocal.se/20090427/19102

Is that right? Hummmmmmm I wonder why?

http://images.askmen.com/dating/love_tip_3800/3852_swedish-girls-1054308-flash-1054308-flash.jpg

Why Swedish Girls Have Way More Fun (http://www.askmen.com/dating/love_tip_3800/3852_swedish-girls.html)

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[Snew]

I'd take socialist Sweden over what we've got now.

[TruckinMike]

They need to send my buddy over to one of their prisons I guess. In Texas they have him in a transfer facility. The prison system in Texas is so packed that he may end up doing his entire stay there......edit

[enhanced_deficit]

They obviously don't have as much Freedoms as we do.

[HOLLYWOOD]

If Sweden's Prison Industrial Complex/.Gov Depart. had Lobbyists in Washington DC, those prisons would be filled, no problemo.

[tangent4ronpaul]

the crime rate in Sweden has increased slightly.

And who is to blame for their rising crime rate? We are!

When you bomb the shit out of a population and support dictators bent on genocide, the survivors become refugees and LEAVE! This is Sweden's problem. It's also exactly what's happened in Switzerland and Holland with their rising crime rates.

Here are two views:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dlG75wb7lLw

Yes, I know Saga is a Swedish Nationalist. Factor her bias into the above clip.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbjCsgSAf-0

Sweden is a very socialist and politically correct country. You are not going to see the kind of racism you see here in the justice system, for example the disparity in sentencing between crack cocaine and cocaine. At the same time, Swedish and Dutch jails are SWEET! Spacious and nice rooms (cells), no locks on the doors, large windows, more like a small studio apartment than a jail cell. Individual TV and Internet in prisoners rooms, no chain gang style transport, etc. It is not illegal to try ad escape. They (and the Dutch) consider consider confinement a unnatural condition. It is, however, a crime to hurt a guard trying to prevent you from escaping. I'm basing this paragraph on a documentary and a couple of articles I saw a few years ago, so I could be mixing the 2 countries up a bit.

Sweden's correctional system:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TSAtByo6KGg

This is about Norway, similar...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wgHdGr4aQoU

The Swedes have completely different attitudes and think differently than us. Consider:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWNPrcbBDME


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL-ctRATz8w

-t

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Does anyone really believe our Economy has recovered?



Well, I always say our economy has been in decline since 1960. Death by a thousand cuts.

[Teenager For Ron Paul]

Ah, Sweden. Such an enigma for us Americans.

[Demigod]

I would not be glorifying Sweden or Norway that much.Their coin has more than just two sides to it and all of them ugly.

[James Madison]

The Swedes have completely different attitudes and think differently than us. Consider:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWNPrcbBDME


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL-ctRATz8w

-t

After watching these videos, I'm not sure Sweden is the direction we want to go in. Besides, Swedish girls are really overrated. :p

[Anti-Neocon]

I guess it's not politically correct to bring up the real reason why rape is increasing, and it's got nothing to do with lack of punishment.

[Demigod]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wgHdGr4aQoU



How can her English be so "American" if this is her first video in English.

[tangent4ronpaul]

How can her English be so "American" if this is her first video in English.

What do you call a Eastern European? Multilingual.
What do you call a Southern European? Trilingual.
What do you call a Central European? Bilingual.
What do you call an American? Monolingual.

They teach them English (or another language) in school.

Oh, and they get American TV, movies and have Skype pals...

This is an interesting link about what's spoken where and for what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lingua_francas

French is generally considered the language of diplomacy
German for science
and I ferget what is supposed to be dominant for business.

Right now, English is trumping everything else due to our and the Brit colonialism adventures and war making.

-t

[tangent4ronpaul]

Maybe something else to consider:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=noKgDhVygFo

Then again, Germany has it's high points...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bdsgqw7zLfk

lol

-t

[Czolgosz]

Crime statistics are always hilarious. And total comedy when comparing "nation" to "nation."


When X crime stat is .001 in cuntry #1 vs .010 in cuntry #2, and people rail on about how much safer it is in #1...it's just laughable. Humans are so short sighted.

(for the ocd: misspellings are intentional :D)

[Czolgosz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bdsgqw7zLfk

lol

-t

One stein there and I'd be totally wasted. lawl

[Demigod]

What do you call a Eastern European? Multilingual.
What do you call a Southern European? Trilingual.
What do you call a Central European? Bilingual.
What do you call an American? Monolingual.

They teach them English (or another language) in school.

Oh, and they get American TV, movies and have Skype pals...

This is an interesting link about what's spoken where and for what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lingua_francas

French is generally considered the language of diplomacy
German for science
and I ferget what is supposed to be dominant for business.

Right now, English is trumping everything else due to our and the Brit colonialism adventures and war making.

-t

I am from South-Eastern Europe and multilingual but her English is without any native accent what so ever.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Fuck that... I'm going to the Jersey Shore for some worn out greasy pork grinds! I love pork grinds... lol
Maybe something else to consider:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=noKgDhVygFo

Then again, Germany has it's high points...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bdsgqw7zLfk

lol

-t

[Demigod]

Fuck that... I'm going to the Jersey Shore for some worn out greasy pork grinds! I love pork grinds... lol

Nothing can be compared with the English.They are the worst.In comparison with them American behavior is top class.

[eduardo89]

We only have 5.3 rapes per 10,000 people! WTF is a .3 of a rape? Oh, just a way of fudging the numbers.

Sarcasm or are you really that dumb?

[eduardo89]

Nothing can be compared with the English.They are the worst.In comparison with them American behavior is top class.

I have to agree with that. British tourists are always the worst anywhere they go, especially when they go to Ibiza and shitholes like Benidorm.

[jllundqu]

My great grandfather Gustav emigrated from Sweden and became a farmer in Minnesota. Most of my family still lives there. I have lots of relics from the old country. I visited Sweden once, and yes, the women there are freaking amazing... but not the city women. Those tall fake blonde alcoholics are for the tourists. You have to go out in the country (or fjords) to find a tall, natural blonde goddess to bring home to mama.

[Demigod]

I have to agree with that. British tourists are always the worst anywhere they go, especially when they go to Ibiza and shitholes like Benidorm.

You should see them in the Greek islands and Cyprus.It is liked they were dogs released from the chains.

[James Madison]

My great grandfather Gustav emigrated from Sweden and became a farmer in Minnesota. Most of my family still lives there. I have lots of relics from the old country. I visited Sweden once, and yes, the women there are freaking amazing... but not the city women. Those tall fake blonde alcoholics are for the tourists. You have to go out in the country (or fjords) to find a tall, natural blonde goddess to bring home to mama.

Wanna help a brother out?