The Pros And Cons Of Nordic Prisons

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The Nordic (Scandinavian) Model of Corrections is very unlike the American Model. These prisons are considered to be somewhat open and inside them the detainees are nearly allowed to live like regular citizens. In countries such as Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Norway, it is not uncommon for ping pong tables, pool tables, aquariums to be present in their high-security prisons. Although this differs from how the United States has classically viewed corrections, Nordic prisons actually have must lower rates of recidivism. In Nordic prisons, each prisoner is designated a contact officer, similar to a corrections officer, who assists them as they progress to return to the outside world. 2. The pre-trial/remand imprisonment situation is basically a law enforcement agency’s ability to detain a person suspected of committing a crime indefinitely until they are to appear in court. In these situations, essentially a person’s presumption of innocence is being removed. While a suspected criminal is detained they are unable to be active in the process of proving that they are not guilty. …show more content…
The United States incarcerates its citizens at a higher rate than any other country in the world. For decades, more and more prisons have been built, and they have been continually filled. In the current crime and punishment model, the focus is put on making punishments severe enough to deter people from committing crimes. We know that as crime rates have gone down, the prison population has continued to skyrocket. I don’t think enough of the public has a concept how much the death penalty costs to execute. Further, I doubt that they are fully aware of how many wrongfully convicted Americans have perished by fault in our

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