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HellonStilts232 karma

Overall, Norwegian prisons have a recidivist rate of 20%, one of the lowest in the world, despite having a pretty high immigrant population for a Western country. Immigrants are overrepresented in prison populations (34% while accounting for 14-16% of overall population), but this has more to do with being overrepresented in lower social strata than a significantly different culture.

Obviously, the prison experience alone doesn't account for all of it. The low recidivism rate also has a lot to do with, among other factors, our expansive social safety net, but it's not a far stretch to say that humane treatment in prison inspires less antipathy toward authorities and less estrangement from society in general.

HellonStilts44 karma

75 per 100,000 people in Norway.

HellonStilts40 karma

Do you feel anything could have been done differently by the US/Coalition to make the region more stable? Seems like the moment no-one was watching the various factions started fighting.

HellonStilts19 karma

Harry Roller and the Wheels of Fire

HellonStilts3 karma

Man, I hate it when I get stuck!