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diff --git a/content/entry/documentary-the-norden-prison.md b/content/entry/documentary-the-norden-prison.md index 656ef7f..50acfa3 100644 --- a/content/entry/documentary-the-norden-prison.md +++ b/content/entry/documentary-the-norden-prison.md @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Mr. Conway claims we shouldn't care about how inmates feel and they shouldn't be People with Mr. Conway's attitude would probably say it's self-evident. Isn't it obvious they shouldn't be treated well? After all they committed a crime. To that I would give the same general answer I give to all moral questions: [What do you care about?](/2020/10/11/metaethics/). I care about minimizing the number of people in prison. I care about people getting better even if that means we have to treat them better than their victims would approve of. I care about the evidence and results from the Nordic prison system as compared to other systems. -It really comes down to your values. If you value living in a society where where you don't have millions of citizens going through the rotating door of prison, poverty and crime more than any other country, where you don't punish and degrade people for the sake of it, where people getting better is more important than revenge, then the best working example of that is the Nordic prison model and you should want to shift other countries closer towards it. +It really comes down to your values. If you value living in a society where you don't have millions of citizens going through the rotating door of prison, poverty and crime more than any other country, where you don't punish and degrade people for the sake of it, where people getting better is more important than revenge, then the best working example of that is the Nordic prison model and you should want to shift other countries closer towards it. Just ask Christer Karlsson, an ex-criminal that served 27 years in a Norwegian prison: |